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...control when descending a steep incline. A few years ago, the technology appealed mainly to downhill racers, but it has since become widespread. New rear suspensions allow bikers to alter their mount's shock-absorbing capacity to accommodate the terrain. This year Specialized launched a line of bikes, Epic ($1,900+), whose suspension system, called "the Brain," automatically adjusts the rear shock according to the impact of the bumps...
Jeffrey Wershow consumed book after book about epic wars and battle strategies. His interest was more than academic. Wershow's prep school had no ROTC program, so he participated in one through a local public school. In 1999, after graduating from high school, he joined the Army. He told his mother Anne Marie Mattison, left, and his father Jon Wershow, a former county commissioner, that he would serve a tour as an enlisted man, then go to college and officer-candidate school. Jeffrey believed the experience would later earn him more respect from the troops. After a three-year stint...
This summer too, nearly every weekend, another gonadal epic storms the box office. These live-action cartoon heroes--icons for the all important 14-to-14 1/2-year-old male demographic--come in many varieties: animal (Wolverine in X2), vegetable (the giant broccoli that is the Hulk) and mineral (Ahnold in T3). Every variety but female...
...fact that Australia?s usually epic spaces seem agreeably compressed to navigable dimensions here. From the front door of my apartment, it?s a mere 20-m stroll to Laguna Bay and only 100 m to my favorite coffee shop, and a choice of more than 30 restaurants within a three-minute walk, alongside spas, boutiques and bookshops. The only thing that feels far away is the rest of the world...
...original Matrix? The answer is no, and the proof is The Animatrix. A collection of nine anim? film shorts supervised by Matrix creators Andy and Larry Wachowski and directed by a team of anim? all-stars, The Animatrix is the Matrix concept free of the commercial pressure of an epic-movie trilogy. Sure, The Animatrix is in one sense a multimillion-dollar advertisement for the franchise, a part of the Wachowskis' plan to milk 99? out of every entertainment dollar spent this summer. But it's also a delicate, deliberate work of art, one that restores much of The Matrix...