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...growth of stores such as R.E.I. and other purveyors of high-tech outdoor gear arises from technological advances that have spawned a host of new synthetic fabrics and materials. These innovations are unprecedentedly light and durable, not to mention increasingly resistant to heat and cold. Even better, especially from the seller's standpoint, the rapid improvements can make relatively new equipment seem outmoded. Tents, once made of canvas or nylon, are now composed of fiber glass and aluminum, materials that have shaved a pound and a half from the average tent weight in the past five years. Ranging in price...
...dash any notion you had of cooking over a fire, or snacking on trail mix. Liquid-fuel stoves with electronic ignitions have made matches passe; contraptions like the Camp Kitchen from Coleman, the Kansas-based gear purveyor, allow any hiker to play Martha Stewart. The portable kitchen weighs only 35 lbs. and yet contains 6 ft. of counter space, a sink, stove space, storage shelves, a paper-towel rack, a set of backgammon and a set of checkers. It all fits in a suitcase-size carrier. At $199 the movable diner is one of the company's best sellers...
...track that the golden shoes flew. At precisely 9 p.m. last Thursday, the gun went off for the final of the 200 m, and with the fireflies of thousands of flash cameras sparkling in the night, Michael Johnson exploded from the blocks. He momentarily stumbled, then shifted into a gear previously known only to Mercury. The fireflies followed him as he came slinging out of the turn, obliterating the stagger and defying the laws of physics. According to Trinidad's Ato Boldon, who would finish third, "I saw a blue blur go by, whoosh, and thought, 'There goes first...
...when correctly situated, a tooth on the rim of a wheel, a gear tooth as the technical boys prefer to call it. But with the institution of smooth wheels--and here's the key reason why the wheel became broken--the cogs were all cut off. Just hacksawed and sanded over. And there they were, floating about the machine, like some half-witted pieces of steel, and then, then there they went getting caught up, in, about, behind, all around, and even, you know where...
Each episode of Kratts' lands the brothers in a different part of the world--the Caribbean, South Africa, the Everglades--to study local animal life. Study is the wrong word, really; what the Kratts do best is hang out. They strap on diving gear and swim with manatees (they're the sea cows), giggling as they scratch the animals, because manatees, we learn, love to be scratched. In another episode, the brothers roll around in the mud with hyenas. When the Kratts travel to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, which they describe as "the world's greatest construction site...