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...recumbent and traditional bicycles to create a new kind of vehicle: it has a seat and center of gravity lower than a standard bike's, making it easier to climb onto and off of than your average 10speed. The Townie's innovative design also lets you place both feet flat on the ground when stopped, so you don't have to wobble on your tippy-toes at traffic lights. This should lessen your chances (and your fear, if you have it) of falling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cruising Without the Bruising | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

...time patrons. Last month, after the government indicated that it may cap the number of slot machines at the largest casinos at 1,250 (roughly half the number in the Bellagio), Las Vegas Sands threatened to curtail its multibillion-dollar deals. "Most U.S. operators are jumping in with both feet," says Scott Fisher, managing director of the Innovation Group, "but with a big life raft attached." U.S. casino executives are trying to sweet-talk other governments too. Although Thailand and Singapore have yet to legalize gambling, MGM Mirage's Lanni has met with Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to discuss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exporting The Fun | 7/25/2004 | See Source »

LINDEN ST. ART STUDIOS—Few things are more intimidating than sketching a naked female stranger posing five feet away. To be precise, I can think of two things more intimidating: first, doing so without knowing how to draw so much as a stick figure; second, discovering that the model in question likes to examine the finished products for “different perspectives” on her body...

Author: By J. hale Russell, | Title: Drawing on Another Side | 7/23/2004 | See Source »

...Entertainment, Inc., announced last Thursday a $9.44 billion deal to purchase rival casino behemoth Caesar’s Entertainment, Inc. If approved by the companies’ shareholders, the deal would be the largest in casino history, creating a giant enterprise with 56 casinos, about 3.7 million square feet in gaming space and over 40,000 hotel rooms...

Author: By Stephen M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former Prof Atop Casino World | 7/23/2004 | See Source »

...crosses whizzed low and hard through the air that nary a touch at the near post would convert into a goal on match day. Thwack, one would take the ball square on his bared chest and then as it landed, fire back an equally powerful airborne pass, about seven feet off the ground, that his mate would meet with the bone of his forehead sending the ball whizzing back at the same speed. And so it went on, like a game of tennis, back and forth, both men displaying an excellent ability to read the flight of the ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sprachen Zie Futbol? | 7/20/2004 | See Source »

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