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...month Formula One campaign - Bahrain is next to play host on April 15 - but Hamilton already cuts an imposing figure in the paddock. "He's not only good - he's exceptionally good," says Damon Hill, Formula One World Champion in 1996 and now president of the British Racing Drivers' Club. Forget that Hamilton's Grand Prix career is just beginning. Hill, who jostled with Hamilton on a karting track at one point in the '90s, says: "He's had I don't know how many years of racing behind him. And he's a winner in everything he's done...
...Cheese Room is the only one of its kind in Asia. It is run as an annex to a buzzing brasserie, the Press Room (so named because it occupies part of the site that housed a now-defunct Chinese newspaper). With its neighbor M1NT, a private members' club, the Press Room has formed a promising enclave of gentrification in a hitherto overlooked part of Central district, luring happy-hour drinkers in their suited scores. The sociable manager, Matthew Siegel, beckons me from a packed bar out onto the street and down to a quiet doorway some meters yonder. It reminds...
Even more surprising, Nike's all-out effort has produced some genuine innovation--including the Sumo2, which capitalizes on something called the moment of inertia; the geometric shape minimizes the twisting of the club head during an off-center ball strike, translating into a straighter, longer stroke off the tee. "Nike timed it so well that when they decided to get serious and get into golf equipment, they had the ultimate endorser in Tiger Woods," says Marshal Cohen, chief analyst at NPD Group. "Then they introduced new technology into the marketplace and really rejuvenated the golf industry...
Still, one golf ball does not a golf-gear maker make, so in 2001 Wood hired Tom Stites, a soft-spoken, well-respected club designer. On a wall in Stites' small office at the Research and Development Facility in Fort Worth, Texas, the message "Innovate or Die" headlines the whiteboard that serves as Stites' cocktail napkin of ideas. "I keep my blinds closed," he says with a smile, to keep that valuable piece of wall decoration away from prying eyes. Stites learned his craft from tour-champion Ben Hogan, and when he joined Nike, he arrived armed with...
Nike's great golf experiment has had its share of hiccups. Just three weeks after the company released the Sumo2 in February, a competitor reported to the U.S. Golf Association that the club exceeded specifications on something called characteristic time, a measure of the head's springlike bounce, which translated into an extra 1 to 2 yds. off the tee. Nike quickly recalled the drivers and is offering to exchange them for USGA-approved clubs by April...