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...condoms with a water leak test. The results were shocking and mildly disturbing. After the prophylactics passed the FDA-standard 10-ounce test, we crammed them with 400 ounces of water—literally 40 times the usual amount—and each passed with flying colors. Zero breakage. Because nothing weighs on you more than a broken condom, FM stole some free weights to test durability. By wrapping the condoms around the weights and hanging them from a doorknob, we discovered that Trojan managed to hold an unreal 13 pounds, while Lifestyle snapped after 8. Durex finished prematurely after...
...transition from urban New Haven to rural Chesire. Most of Hamden was originally a farm whose vestiges still linger on as stone walls in backyards and undeveloped fields. At its outskirts, Hamden is a liquor store and a gas station with barely paved roads and population densities approaching zero. Near New Haven, Hamden is schools, large colonials, and parks interspersed with restaurants and bars. But most of Hamden lies between these two: a suburban paradise...
...Some Like It Yacht,” we intend to continue giving back to the community because we consider it a vitally important tradition of ours,” Dodd said. The 158th production of the Theatricals will open Feb. 24 at its new location at the Zero Arrow Street Theater...
...India and Mesopotamia. Soon, however, Muslim intellectuals were not content just to reproduce others' works, and began to elaborate on them, making their own important discoveries and innovations. Muslim mathematicians took principles developed in Greece, such as Euclid's theories of numbers and geometry, and the Indian concept of zero, as the basis for developing such new disciplines as calculus and trigonometry. Of the early math books on view, the illustrated Treatise on Geometry is significant for its author, the Muslim king of Saragossa, Spain, and its date of 1080. Similarly, Arabs absorbed the theoretical concepts of Greek medicine, adding...
...private equity firm. He is trying to bring some of the Valley's spirit to the Chicago suburbs. He has challenged everyone--not just the mobile-phone designers--to come up with Motorola's next iconic product. Rau says his team was inspired by the Razr to develop the "zero-footprint base station," equipment for mobile-phone carriers that takes up less real estate than a standard cell-phone tower...