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...travelers to London, Amsterdam, Vienna and major cities in France, Germany and Switzerland can get behind the wheel of a two-passenger Smart City Coupe. The wee 8-ft.-long cars, which make the Mini Cooper feel like a limo, have surprisingly roomy seats and are eco-friendly and fuel efficient. Best of all, their petite size makes parking a breeze, even on the most car-packed streets. Book two weeks in advance at www. sixti.com --By Lisa McLaughlin
...home for the holidays will go through the same frustrating airport routine: We will present our driver’s license and our bags will get weighed, and if they’re overweight, we’ll have to pay a fee to account for the extra fuel that will be spent in order to lug our extensive library and Imelda Marcos shoe collection across the skies. But what of the unweighed excess that sits around so many Americans? Is it not unjust that Dartboard is persecuted so that the gluttonous can be left to go free...
Well, it certainly is. What determines how much fuel an aircraft uses is the net factor weight of everyone and their items on board the aircraft, including themselves. Ten pounds of t-shirts increases the fuel requirements of the aircraft as much as an extra 10 pounds of fat. But this wouldn’t be hard to fix. At the airport, we could put your bags on one scale, and stand you on another. Supermodels and other infamously skinny people could elect to pack a few more pairs of shoes, those who decided to remain morbidly obese would have...
...latest insights into the disease, it helps to know a little more about two key molecules--glucose and insulin--and the roles they play in the conditions doctors call Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. We'll start with glucose, the sugar molecule that is a major source of fuel for the body. You can get your glucose levels tested at a doctor's office or at home with a device called a glucometer. What you're looking for is a reading measured in milligrams of glucose per deciliter of blood (or, on some glucometers, in millimoles per liter). Anyone...
WRIGHT THEY WERE A cool use for a 12-horsepower engine and 1.5 quarts of fuel: exactly how the aerial age was born 100 years...