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...some engineering advances have muddied the process. Part of all cars' armory from 2002-'07 was traction control, an electronic aid that kicks in when the rear wheels begin to spin or slide. Say you're driving through a tight corner in the rain. At the midway point you floor the accelerator. Because an F1 car is both ultra-light and ultra-powerful, your action would surely cause the rear wheels to spin and the car to slide out of control. But not with the magic of traction control, which overrides your foot and cuts power. You could hear this...
...recent afternoon, 10 people reclined in deck chairs and on blankets under salty stalactites in Galos Caves in Chicago. The recorded sound of waves filled the dimly lit room. It smelled like a seaside town. The floor is made of loose rock salt from the Dead Sea and is warmed to enhance the scent and coziness. After 45 minutes, for which they had paid $15 each, Dan Zegar, 50, and Denyse Waters, 57, didn't want to leave. Waters thought the salt air had cleared her sinuses. But Zegar's appreciation was broader: "If there are some medicinal properties...
...scenes in the hospital and morgue were particularly ghoulish, with patients covered with synthetic wounds and bloody bandages wailing and moaning on dirty mattresses strewn about the floor. Even the British stiff upper lip seemed to quiver a bit as members of the response team tried to mediate in Spanish between injured countryman pleading for help and the local Dr. Giggles who wanted to take...
...Paris, it's this place, it's my girlhood dream come true. Because in 1969, when I was 22, I came to Paris for the first time and stayed just around the corner, in a French crash pad at 9 rue Campagne Premiere. It was a six-floor walk up, with like eight people, and we all slept on the floor. I did a lot of drawings, and taped them all over the walls. And now these drawings are going to be on exhibition here. It's very moving for me. These drawings were done here with so many hopes...
...saved for about two years. We just lived on bread and a little cheese, but it was so romantic. I imagined someday having a gallery and an atelier, and here I am. My atelier is a little hotel that overlooks Montparnasse graveyard, and my gallery is a whole floor of the Fondation Cartier. It's my world right now, the same world that was mine when...