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Downstairs on the shop floor, where 18 motorcycles are produced a day, there is not a single visible sign that Benelli is Chinese-owned. With his handlebar moustache and thick sideburns, veteran worker Righi believes Qianjiang has brought a real change for the better. "We've seen more investment and new projects in the past 18 months than we'd seen in the past decade," he says. On the local level, this might be the most meaningful effect of the Benelli-Qianjiang model: the hundred or so Italian employees at the plant see the Chinese parent as the savior...
...hilarious avatars for each partygoer, so they could play games using a cartoon mini-self, or Mii. By selecting and adjusting face shapes, eyes, noses and hairstyles, you can build accurate caricatures, but beware of false friends who make your nose two sizes too big, or attach a sinister handlebar mustache to your otherwise handsome...
First and foremost in this last category is Sammy, a Sicilian with aviator sunglasses and a handlebar mustache. According to Tim, Sammy has been around for years: “He’s been here since before I was,” he says...
...rock and roll. Craig has a band. The band is called The Hold Steady. The Hold Steady tries to sound like Bruce Springsteen. Craig does not look like Bruce Springsteen. Craig looks like Randy Newman. Meet Franz Nicolay. Franz is also in The Hold Steady. Franz has a waxed handlebar mustache. Franz’s name is Franz. You were introduced a paragraph ago, and you’re already willing to dismiss Finn and company as losers; as middle-aged men playing air guitar in dive bars, pining for the brawny riffs and throbbing bass lines they knew...
...Handlebar Club of London, according to its website, has one major qualification: “a hirsute appendage of the upper lip, with graspable extremities.” At Harvard, Christopher S. Nabel ’08 possesses such a mustache, but his is not an effort of vanity—it’s one of practicality. Nabel, a member of the Harvard Nordic Ski Team, grew a beard to keep his face warm on the icy trails. “It’s really cool because it insulates your face,” he says. When Nabel?...