Word: choppered
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Skaters, skateboarders and bicycle riders are taking to the streets this spring with some flashy new gear. What's hot? Chopper-style bikes, quick-fit, in-line skates and snazzy electric scooters are all in demand. Skateboards are sporting quirkier designs, inspired by star athletes. And interchangeable parts are hot on both skates and boards. So whether you're up for tricks or just easy rolls down the road, these wheels will keep all eyes on you. --By Jeremy Caplan
What's New? Low- slung chopper bikes reminiscent of the 1960s are back in vogue with new twists, such as the stick shift on Schwinn's Sting-Ray Three ($250). An electric version ($400) races up to 15 m.p.h. Tip: Specialized, Giant and others sell chopper bikes too so bargain shopping can pay off. Sears' Huffy model is a steal...
...Nicaraguan government. Brown still promises a $10,000 bounty, announced in 1979, for the return of Dictator Idi Amin to Uganda to stand trial. But that reward is peanuts compared with his latest offer: $1 million to any pilot who defects with an Mi-24 helicopter, the Soviet hightech chopper delivered to the Sandinistas last year...
...white helicopter dropped out of a darkening sky, veered around a thick tree and sank its runners into the lush grass in the middle of a soccer field at El Salvador's leading military academy. A chubby figure dressed in blue jeans and a wind-breaker bolted from the chopper, dashed across the pitch and threw herself into the arms of her weeping mother. A moment later, Inés Guadalupe Duarte Durán was swept into the embrace of her tear-choked father, President José Napoleón Duarte, for whom the nation's civil war had lately become an agonizing...
...sportswriters called him the Brown Bomber, the Dark Destroyer, the Sepia Slugger, the Mahogany Maimer, the Chocolate Chopper, the Tan Tarzan of Thump. These were far more than sobriquets. As Chris Mead observes in his enlightening biography, Champion, Heavyweight Joe Louis Barrow could never be a mere titleholder. He was always an emblem...