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...dominance. Nor will liberal single-issue groups simply evaporate. But if they cohere again, it will be around different defining issues. "It's a new ball game," admits Steinfels. As Tilley wrote recently in Commonweal regarding his fellow theologians, "A new generation has neither the baggage nor the ballast of mine. Theirs is the future. Let's hope they remember the Council as the most important event in twentieth-century Catholicism...
...angle that virtually guarantees the ball will get into the air. "With the i-brid, you make a regular swing, and you get loft and distance," says Brian Groves, vice president at Callaway. The clubs are also weighted differently from those designed for men, with much of the ballast concentrated in the bottom of the club to optimize the chance that even women's slower swing speeds will launch the ball down the fairway. The odd shape of the i-brid took some getting used to, but I definitely hit more consistently after a few tries. It's ideal...
Lyles, who pursued biology and environmental studies in college, is impassioned about an increasingly pernicious environmental problem caused by ballast water, which cargo and other ships take on, carry and release to help stabilize and balance them. "There's a smorgasbord of bacteria, viruses, crustaceans and small fish in ballast," Lyles says. And when flushed into strange waters, these organisms can take over, with devastating effect. An infestation of zebra mussels began to radically change the Great Lakes ecosystem in the 1980s, and the MSX virus depleted the oyster population of Chesapeake Bay in the 1950s. Scientists have traced both...
...federal Aquatic Invasive Species Act, passed in 1990, requires ships to disinfect their ballast before discharging it, but critics say its standards aren't tough enough. (A stricter version of the law is pending.) Lyles' electrochemical technology promises more pristine ballast...
Despite their success in turning ballast into beauty, Lyles and Durham plan to hire new managers for C'watre, then head back to their original research next year. By then, Lyles hopes, tougher regulations on ballast water may have passed, boosting demand for Tandem's technology. Meanwhile, it will be known for the ship that launched a thousand face creams...