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...theirs together. The matching tattoos on their left arms combine their initials and Tyler's. The walls are covered with photos -- some of the boy alone, some with Sharon, some with both women. Upstairs is the room they still think of as his, the floor comfortingly littered with plastic trucks, musical instruments, toys and stuffed animals...
...father Al Gore '69 was elected vice president. Tomorrow, when she looks into the video camera at the College's upperclass registration, her picture won't be used in a Rose Garden photo op--it will be reproduced on a single, two-inch-by-three-inch piece of plastic...
...Vice President cut different impressions. Clinton is a loose and easy presence; Gore jokes that he knows he is alive "because I hear myself creak every so often." Gone is the latent cutup who late at night during the campaign would plant his large wing tips on a plastic tray and surf from first to economy class during the takeoff of his plane, tossing out a chorus of James Brown's I Feel Good. He deals with the inevitable Wooden Al jokes by repeating them. "At a health- care meeting of 800 doctors," he says, rubbing his hands Jay Leno...
...California's San Fernando Valley, techies have succeeded in stiffening the "flex" of an arrow's aluminum shaft by thirty-thousandths of an inch. Result? A faster arrow and reduced wind resistance. But after radical sports-gear breakthroughs (big-head tennis racquets and golf clubs, high-back plastic ski boots), the improvements are marginal and often largely cosmetic. Mountain bikes, for instance, are madly popular everywhere, but they are not really all that useful in the Northeast, where mountain trails are brutal and steep, composed mostly of rocks the size of refrigerators. You can't navigate them with a bike...
...most valuable commodity of McCaw Cellular is Craig McCaw. Soft- spoken and unassuming, McCaw is a demanding chief executive who drives a 10-year-old car and wears a $30 plastic digital watch. A licensed pilot, he relaxes by flying his De Havilland-Beaver seaplane to remote lakes in the Pacific Northwest. The McCaw family, including Craig and his brothers, owned 20% of their company's stock. When the AT&T purchase is completed, their holdings will be worth a combined $2.8 billion, making the McCaws AT&T's largest independent shareholders. Craig, who will become an AT&T board...