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...important, a decade of honing their race craft. "There is no better place to learn how to read your competitors, how to pressurize them at Turn 2 so that at Turn 4 they make a mistake," says Jason Plato, 39, the Seat team driver currently leading the British Touring Car Championship, and a kart racer from the age of 11. "All those subtle skills you learn in karting...
...Beatles once enjoyed—teenagers around the world haven’t adopted her hairstyle...yet—it nevertheless places her under a perpetual spotlight. Every aspect of her life is fair game for scrutiny, from fashion faux pas to comments about female scientists to the car she drives. How a person chooses to travel can say a lot about her, but Harvard provides a default mode of transportation. Along with an official residence, the University offers its commander in chief a black Lincoln town car, which once sported a license plate reading...
...monks from the crowd, targeting the leaders, striking both monks and ordinary people with canes. Several smoke bombs exploded and the riot police charged. The monks and others fought back with sticks and rocks. Many others ran, perhaps four or five of them bleeding from minor head wounds. A car was set alight - by the soldiers, some protesters claimed - and then there was the unmistakable crack of live ammunition: the soldiers were shooting into...
...Shops along the road were shuttered, but people threw down water bottles from their balconies to aide the protesters. Minutes later, the arc of a tear-gas canister looped through the air toward the pagoda's east entrance. The air was full of dense black clouds from a burning car and motorbike. Running monks retreated through the smoke, many armed with clubs of scavenged wood, one armed with a riot shield snatched from the police. They were shaking and incandescent with rage. "The United Nations must know about this!" cried one. "They beat the nuns too," cried another...
...That may help calm those locals who subscribe to an anyone-but-Anheuser mentality, believing it would be an insult for their illustrious brew to be owned by what they consider a pretender to the Budweiser name. "It would be a smack in the face," scoffs retired car repairman Milos Homolka, 54. "Americans would still make beer, but it will not be the good old Budvar." Not that it would really affect Homolka either way. He has already switched to pilsner...