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Need a little boost of power to get you through the yard work this fall? The $299 Cargomaxx from Country Home Products is a battery-powered wheelbarrow that lets you lug up to 400 lbs. of logs, rocks or equipment--as well as bulky loads of leaves--without breaking your back. The 24-volt rechargeable battery drives the wheel at speeds of up to 3 m.p.h. on a 25% slope. The Cargomaxx still needs a human touch: you have to hold on to the handles to keep it steady...
...flurry of punches, and finished with his pride intact. Despite his tough-guy nickname, Wade, a 37-year-old father of two, is not a professional boxer - he's a lawyer and writer. "I cannot overemphasize how terrifying the whole thing was," says Wade. "But it's an adrenaline boost you don't get every day." In the past three years, some 1,200 lawyers, bankers, judges and other suits - mostly thirty- and fortysomething men - have joined London's The Real Fight Club, a for-profit company founded in 2001 by events promoter Alan Lacey. The white-collar amateurs squeeze...
...date was set. And Israeli media reported that in light of U.S. opposition to Israel harming or removing Arafat, the cabinet?s decision was simply an in-principle one that would not be implemented right now. For Arafat, however, the latest Israeli threat proved to be an unlikely boost, provoking massive street demonstrations in his support in Ramallah and Gaza, and forcing the region?s preeminent moderate Arab leader, Egypt?s President Hosni Mubarak to warn that dire consequences would follow an Arafat expulsion and that - notwithstanding U.S. and Israeli efforts to sideline him - ''no Palestinian prime minister will succeed...
...Massachusetts state college system starts its academic year, it will be dealing with some crippling losses—sharp budget cuts that include reduced support for community colleges. But there is at least one reduction that will actually provide a boost to the university: the loss of William M. Bulger as its president...
Genetic Fingerprinting The ability to use DNA to make a positive ID gave the criminal justice system a major boost, led to countless arrests and convictions of those who would otherwise have gone free and helped exonerate the falsely accused. Alec Jeffreys developed the process in 1985. Three years later, it put its first perp in jail...