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...tour of the Minneapolis, Minn., riverfront and such historic landmarks as the Stone Arch Bridge and the Mill City Museum can take a lot of time and shoe leather. But Bill and Emily Neuenschwander's tours can guide you through much of the city's history quickly, with a nod to the future: the mode of transportation is the Segway Human Transporter. The Neuenschwanders started offering tours via the scooter-like device this spring as a sideline to their computer-consulting business. Now they have a fleet of 21 Segways and are attracting 150 customers a week...
Finally, footwear gets smart. The new Adidas 1 is the first running shoe to adjust its cushioning levels automatically during a jog. With every step, a magnetic sensor in the heel measures the force exerted by a runner and transmits this data to a microprocessor under the arch. The chip drives a tiny cable system that adjusts the heel, which gets harder to cushion the blow when your tired feet are pounding the pavement and then softer to relax them while walking across the lawn. The shoe might also relax your wallet: the Adidas 1 will retail at $250 when...
...already three months behind schedule, another dismal detail in a building program plagued by chronic delays and charges of incompetence. Anxious to avoid a p.r. fiasco, authorities limited coverage to Greek state TV. The Deputy Culture Minister nervously smashed a bottle of red wine on the base of the arch and looked skyward. The gods of Olympus answered her silent prayer. The 9,000-ton roof segment moved - just. The closing, fittingly, was excruciatingly slow, the huge steel arch moving at a rate of 5.5 m/h as teams of engineers and builders hung like spiders from ropes and perched...
...their hands on Harbin Brewery. Recent years have seen lackluster sales in the U.S., whereas China has emerged as the world's last great growth market for beer. With SABMiller already owning a stake in another large brewery in a neighboring province, A-B saw the danger that its arch rival might become the region's dominant player...
...those are dirty words. The article caught the eye of a VNN reader identified only as “Arch.” He wrote to VNN’s editor, bemoaning Carey’s fate and using her and other liberal home-schooled students as a prime reason for why home schooling should be abolished. His argument was that the children of these families receive “no diversity training or social conditioning to the Jew’s [sic] world order” at home, and so when they go to college, just aren?...