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This vision from around the technological bend has, in various forms, preoccupied the automotive industry for decades. The basic idea is always the same. Proponents imagine a morning someday in the next century when you and your smart car pull out of the garage, drive down local roads in the conventional manner and head for the "smartway." There you will merge into the auto lanes, activate your robo-driver and relax. The car will hurtle along at high speed--perhaps up to 140 m.p.h.--only a few feet from the cars in front and behind but protected by collision-avoidance...
...Essay on the middle-aged grunt. But has he noticed that ever since tennis star Monica Seles popularized the "tennis grunt," it has been spreading? And she is definitely younger than middle age. What can be deduced from this trend? Maybe that grunters are "coming out"? BILL DILLON South Bend, Indiana...
...Barker's Pinhead and dozens of other glamorous mutants) capers around them like bit players in an amiable madman's reverie. Ballerina-contortionists flex gaily; Pierrots bodysurf across the stage on skateboards; the man with the newspaper floats in midair. Dragone exhausts the laws of geometry, while the performers bend the laws of physics...
...nearly 3,000 years of history, culture and tradition that are unique. Others believe differently. But Italy, as a modern republic, is composed of many different people. Since this is the case, the representative of the country's beauty could be any color on earth. STEPHEN R. RIBAUDO South Bend, Indiana...
Inevitable as death, ineffable as love, unappealing as the sudden appearance of jowls, the impulse to make strange little grunting noises when you stand up, sit down or bend over hits everyone in different ways. For some, it may first occur when hoisting a bag of groceries; for others, it may happen when stooping to pick up a toddler or crouching to tie a shoe. Typically, the strange little grunting noises never sound like much--a weary uhhh as the weight of the body is raised or lowered. Sometimes the uhhh may be followed by a few expressive words, like...