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Olympus MJU 1030 The Olympus MJU 1030 ($500) is crushproof up to 220 lbs. (100 kg), so even if a baby elephant stands on it, your safari snaps may still be safe. It can also endure more everyday dangers, including submergence in 32.8 ft. (10 m) of water. www.olympus-global.com
...Airlines 727 that lands each morning at Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados carries not only vacationers but also an impressive load of paperwork. In order to cut costs on the processing of passenger ticket-coupons collected at its boarding gates, American flies daily an average of 1,100 lbs. of documents to the balmy island. In Barbados, some 500 computer keypunch operators employed by Caribbean Data Services, a subsidiary of the airline, transfer the ticket information to magnetic tape. The electronic data are then beamed by satellite to American's central computer in Tulsa. Despite extra expenses like...
...leisurely way to reach Alaska is to head for Seattle or Vancouver, board a cruise ship and eat your way north. For its 625 passengers on a recent seven-day voyage from Vancouver to Whittier, a seaport near Anchorage, the Cunard Princess stocked its cold rooms with 12,500 lbs. of beef and 6,000 lbs. of seafood. Guests, who paid $1,325 to $2,670 for the trip, could experience the thrust and heave of great tectonic plates of nourishment at prebreakfast, breakfast, midmorning bouillon, lunch, tea, a five-course dinner and, of course, midnight buffet. Jay Johnson...
...were petrified." Teddy took off toward the barn. Corcoran grabbed his reins, but Teddy dragged her 10 feet along the ground before she had to let go. "I'm a big, strong girl who played college hockey," says Corcoran, 35, who is 5-ft. 11-in., and weighs 160 lbs. "But there was nothing I could do. He was fleeing for his life...
...cartilaginous articular surfaces of his knee - the parts that rub together when the knee bends - were pristine. They were as smooth and white and glistening as those of a teenager. Here was a surface that had rubbed against another surface under 150 lbs. of force at least two or three million times a year for nearly a 100 years. And the knee was still perfect - there was absolutely no arthritis. How could this be? Only by virtue of being alive. The living joint has all sorts of intricate self-repair machinery, machinery that works to undo damage - right down...