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...gravidity is back in trendy grace, but often at the expense of the traditional, luxurious confinement. The new attitude is one of aggressive athleticism. Long hours at the office is only one way to be belligerently preggers. Even new fashions help the mother-to-be (see box). Women run, scuba dive and fence, sometimes against the advice of their doctors, while carrying a child. One New York periodontist in her late 30s refused to stop riding with her local hunt club when she became pregnant. She merely traded in her form-fitting "hunting pink" jacket for a man's jacket...
...Haven, you may decide to get some food to wash down your drinks with. Or you may just decide to get some more drinks. Either way, you can find what you want near campus. And freshmen rejoice: the drinking age is only 18! So, put away your scuba club card with the fake birthday scratched on it, and join the grownups for a good time...
...fashioned scuba equipment would have permitted only a daily 45-minute dive to the ship's depth, but both methods are dangerous. A saturated diver forced to leave the pressurized chamber before a final 50 hours of decompression could explode internally because of rapidly expanding bodily gases...
...African affairs for the Library of Congress. Since overcoming cancer and receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard, Howe has written for the Philadelphia Inquirer as a foreign correspondent based in Zimbabwe, served in the Peace Corps, and worked for a Washington organization for the aged. He has also taken up scuba diving, hang gliding and parachuting. Cancer taught him how to "wrestle with mortality," he says, and that wrestling has left him determined to live as full a life as possible...
...bears growling, a walrus grunting, a seal barking, a tiger roaring and a lizard-a big lizard-hissing. The result, as anybody who has ever traveled to the planet Kashyyyk knows, is pure Wookie. For Darth Vader, Lucas wanted a sinister sound. Burtt put a tiny microphone inside a scuba tank regulator and found what Lucas wanted: the sound of labored, but mechanical breathing. "The biggest dilemma," he says, "is always to create a sound which sounds familiar and has an association with reality but yet is not identifiable...