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Chung, “Slap Skates Just Link in Chain to Faster Times,”
Japan Economic Newswire
, January 15, 1998.
    43. Ibid.
    44. Amy Shipley, “‘Slapskates’ Melt Records, Anger Purists,”
Washington Post
, November 30, 1997; Vahe Gregorian, “Clap Skates Don’t Get Applause of All the Skaters,”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
, February 9, 1998.
    45. Beverley Smith, “New Technology Creates Icy Feud in Speedskating,”
Globe and Mail
(Toronto), September 30, 1997.
    46. Thomas C. Kouros,
Par Bowling: The Challenge
(Palatine,Ill.: Pin-Count Enterprises, 1993), 177.
    47. Weiskopf,
Perfect Game
, 162–75; Chip Zielke,
Revolutions
(Matteson, Ill.: Revolutions International, 1995), 28–32; James Brooke, “900 Reasons for Making the Bowlers’ Record Book,”
New York Times
, February 9, 1997; John Maher, “Spare Change: With High-Tech Bowling Balls, the Premium on Talent Diminishes in the Professional Bowlers,”
Austin American-Statesman
, July 29, 1995; Dick Evans, “OnceSpoiled by Success, Holman Is Starting Over,”
Portland Oregonian
, January 30, 1995; Kevin Sherrington, “Bowlers Worry About PBA Tour’s Decline,”
Seattle Times
, March 12, 1995.
    48. Dan Herbst, “Is Practice a Lost Art?”
Bowlers Journal International
, vol. 82, no. 6 (June 1995), 80, 84.
    49. Rone Tempest, “China Puts Bowling in New League,”
Los Angeles Times
, October5, 1997; Steve James, “The Helicopter Technique: It Isn’t Funny Anymore,”
Bowling
, vol. 58, no. 3 (December 1991—January 1992), 28–32; Zakri Baharudin, “Taiwan’s Spinning Takes Them Places,”
New Straits Times
(Malaysia), March 29, 1999; Akirako Yamaguchi, “Taiwanese Bowler Rolls Gold with ‘Helicopter,’”
Daily Yomiuri
, October 6, 1994; Hildegarde Chambers, “Bowler Aims for World Title,”
CalgaryHerald
, December 10, 1998.
    50. Chris Cooper, “How Much Does a Strike Weigh?”
Bowling
, vol. 61, no. 3 (December 1994—January 1995), 34–36.
    51. James, “Helicopter Technique,” 32.
    52. David Warsh, “Toward a Better Understanding of Economic Growth,”
Boston Globe
, August 7, 1994; Paul M. Romer, “Beyond Classical and Keynesian Macro-economic Policy,”
Policy Options
, July—August 1994, posted at http://www.stanford.edu/~promer ; A. Lund, broadcast e-mail message, October 28, 1995, “Feedback on Ratings of Usability Rules of Thumb,” cited in Aaron Marcus, “Graphical User Interfaces,” in Martin G. Helander et al., eds.,
Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction
, 2nd ed. (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1997), 438.
    53. On the colonial deployment of automatic weapons, see John Ellis,
The Social History of the Machine Gun
(London: Pimlico,1993), 79–110.
CHAPTER TWO
    1. Henry Petroski,
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985), and
Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995).
    2. J. Bostock, “Evolutionary Approaches to Infant Care,”
Lancet
, vol. 1, no. 1038 (1962), 1033–35; cited in Katherine A. Dettwyler and ClaudiaFishman, “Infant Feeding Practices and Growth,”
Annual Review of Anthropology
, vol. 21 (1992), 180.
    3. Huntly Collins, “Low-Tech Breast-Feeding Aid,”
Philadelphia Inquirer
, May 24, 1999; Sue Armstrong, “Choice Would Be a Fine Thing: An Increasingly Urban Lifestyle Is Encouraging Women to Abandon Breast-Feeding,”
New Scientist
, vol. 148, no. 1998 (October 7, 1995), 44ff.
    4. Valerie A. Fildes,
Breasts, Bottles and Babies
(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1986), 17–36, 45–52, 399–401; Valérie Lastinger, “Re-Defining Motherhood: Breast-Feeding and the French Enlightenment,”
Women’s Studies
, vol. 25, no. 6 (1996), 603–17; Joan Sherwood, “The Milk Factor: The Ideology of Breast-feeding and Post-partum Illnesses, 1750–1850,”
Canadian Bulletin of the History of Medicine
, vol. 10 (1993),25–47; Sally McMillen, “Mothers’ Sacred Duty: Breast-Feeding Patterns Among Middle- and