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...give the tent a rigid structure without aluminum poles. Designed by Cam Brensinger, a consultant for a NASA project designing spacesuits for Mars, the Nemo tents bring aerospace technology to the great outdoors. The company says the tents can be erected in less than a minute - in our test it took 48 seconds! Next Product: New Wave...
...Party looking for a fresh face and a new direction, there is more than a little interest in what Warner plans to do when he leaves office in January. Shouts of "'08!" greeted his entrance at Kaine's victory party last week. Warner has begun traveling the country to test whether his brand of bipartisan pragmatism has any place in the polarized arena of national politics, saying, "Americans want somebody who is going to be straight with them, even if the truth may not be what they want to hear...
...Thin Blue Line HIV testing has come a long way since the mid-1990s, when patients had to wait as long as two weeks to learn whether they were HIV-positive and were given the news--which could be a death sentence--by a doctor, a nurse or a trained counselor. Now AIDS can be effectively treated with antiretroviral drugs, and FDA approval seems imminent for the first over-the-counter HIV test for use in the home: the OraQuick Advance. With a swab of saliva taken from the gums, the kit (currently sold to doctors and clinics for about...
...most obsessive golfers, Paul McNeill occasionally ponders the game's standard frustrations--the blown putts, the sliced drives into the rough--and questions his devotion to such a maddening pursuit. But as a regular at Kabul's only golf course, McNeill puts up with some extra hazards that would test the mettle of Tiger Woods. The grassless fairways of rock and stubble are cratered by rocket shells. The greens are in fact brown, a mix of oil and dirt with the consistency of quicksand. Approach shots are complicated by the possibility that insurgents have planted land mines on the course...
...game behind 5-1 Brown, which beat Dartmouth 24-14. Harvard could still secure a share of first if the Bears fall to Columbia on the road next week, but the Lions—0-6 in the Ivy League—are unlikely to prove much of a test for streaking Brown.As a result, next Saturday’s showdown in New Haven will likely be only for the customary bragging rights, as well as a chance for the seniors to close out their season and careers on a high note.“It?...