The Traveller's Guide To Scuba Diving Oct 19, 2004
BCD: A Buoyancy Control Device (BCD) is an airtight, armless jacket attached to the air cylinder and worn by the diver over their wet/dry suit ... Regulator: Regulates the flow of pressurised air from the cylinders into the mouth. (The Independent, UK -- Travel)
Riding on the crest of a wave Aug 15, 2004
But astonishing footage of surf-prince Laird Hamilton careening along a cylinder of thunderous water with consummate grace quickly puts paid to that objection. Dogtown and Z-Boys told of how, in the early 1970s, Peralta and his friends, working-class street kids of the dilapidated blue-collar beach towns south of Los Angeles - "where the debris meets the sea", in the words of Z-Boy Nathan Pratt - transferred the skills they'd learned surfing wretchedly dangerous, urban-nightmare breaks around... (Google News -- Entertainment)
Western N.C. observatory brings distant stars to classrooms Apr 21, 2004
Three multimedia majors will work as designers with input from three physics and astronomy interns, creating the software and data for a metal cylinder that will beam the star images inside the planetarium. Bringing cold numbers to bright lights will be their task. (The Morning Star )
