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...snorkling gear, diving equipment, Jet Skis and sailboards. To help while away foul weather, a free-flowing bar is at the ready, and libraries are stocked with videotapes as well as books, chess and backgammon games. Many decks have saunas, and in one vessel there is a piano with built-in heating elements to guard against warp...
...part paper copier and part telephone. On one end, a document is fed into the machine. The operator then uses the built-in telephone to dial the phone number of the receiving fax. When contact is made, an electronic scanner is activated. As it moves across the page, it converts the text, charts and pictures into electrical pulses that are carried over the telephone line. On the receiving end, the process is reversed. The machines can transmit everything from design plans to a picture of the Mona Lisa, in black-and-white at least...
...metrification falter? Most believe it was because compliance with the Metric Act was purely voluntary. Indeed, about all the law did was establish a metric board to help manage the anticipated rush to conversion. From the start, the board had a built-in problem: in the interest of fairness, it was set up to reflect opposing points of view. But as a result, its deliberations repeatedly ended in deadlock. "Lining up for the metric system were the multinational corporations, the scientific community and educators," recalls Underwood. "Opposed were a great many consumers, who saw it as placing undue stress...
...Presidency: The Administration's authority to take action has been hemmed in by Congress as well as special interests and the media, cramping opportunities for creative national leadership. -- A built-in constitutional conflict over the power to make war has flared into open discord between Capitol Hill and the White House...
Intended as an alternative to jail terms and suspended licenses for drunk drivers, the locks have mouthpieces into which drivers must exhale to measure their breath-alcohol level. The manufacturers, Guardian Interlock Systems of Denver and Safety Interlock of Carmel, Calif., claim that built-in safeguards make it difficult for drivers to use compressed air or borrow a breath of fresh air from a friend. One unsolved problem: how to prevent a tipsy driver from borrowing a car that has not been drunkproofed...