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...Fuelish Whenever possible, walk, bike, carpool or use mass transit...
...skinny to leave," he explains. "Everyone will know I'm doing yaba.") Big has a job as a pump jockey at a Star gas station. And he has a girlfriend, and he has his motorcycle, a Honda GSR 125. This weekend, like most weekends, he'll be racing his bike with the other guys from the neighborhood, down at Bangkok's superslum Klong Toey. That's why tonight, a few days before the race, he is working on his bike, removing a few links of the engine chain to lower the gear ratio and give the bike a little more...
...next afternoon, however, all the promise of the previous evening has escaped from the neighborhood like so much exhaled smoke. Jacky's customer lost interest and found another girl. Even the bike racing fell apart after the cops broke up the first few rallying points. And now, on a hazy, rainy Sunday, Jacky and a few of the girls are back in her hut. They're smoking, almost desperately uploading as much speed as possible to ward off this drab day and this squalid place...
Jeff Skilling, CEO of Houston energy giant Enron, admits he's not in a great mood. He's just come out of a spinning class, part of his training for the MS150 Houston-to-Austin bike ride in April to benefit multiple sclerosis. Boy, is he hurting. But the real pain was the mid-morning peek at the markets Tuesday. Ouch. Enron (ENE) is trading around $60 a share - less than half what the company thinks it's worth. "Between the equity markets and the spinning class, I'm not in a great mood," says Skilling...
...remember my father out in front, in the dirt patch meant to be a yard, unloading sod and pressing it down with a huge steel sod-roller. To me it was like living in a desert. Walking home from school, sitting on a curb playing marbles, riding my bike - there was never a break from the sun. It felt like Arizona, not Ohio...