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Byline: editor: Virginia Smith
More than seven centuries ago, Marco Polo returned to Europe from China with instructions on how to make the whimsical wind-riding kites he discovered there. Since then, these sky-circling devices have triggered some of the most active imaginations in the Westrecall Sir George Cayley and his idea for a flying travel machine (a.k.a. the airplane), and the Wright brothers' winged "box" kite, a prelude to the real thing. Now the traditional diamond kite has found ...