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Mixing a maze with modern technology, this San Francisco installation sensation simulates Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous hallucinatory dream, the one that brought the world Kubla Khan. Donning a Plexiglas helmet and carrying an MP3 digital music player, visitors stumble along in deliberate disorientation beside Alph, the sacred river that leads to a stately pleasure dome. Creator Chris Hardman's sellout show is the hippest legal high on the West Coast...
...FORCE A helmet weighs around 3 lbs. But on a banked turn, pulling between 2.5Gs and 5Gs, it can be five times as heavy...
HANS DEVICE Shoulder yoke attaches to helmet and stops head snapping back and forth. more than 40 drivers placed orders the day after Earnhardt's death...
...what happened to Dale. He once told me he hated how confining the modern car is; he liked the old days, his right arm slung over the backseat, steering with his left. And he hung onto as much of the past as he could, including the antique open-faced helmet that might have contributed to his death. But those who suggested the new style were subject to a stare that could pierce his mirrored sunglasses; real drivers--the rebels, the cowboys, the guys he looked up to, with names like Fireball Roberts and Tiny Lund--had a certain look...
...study shows that 1 out of 3 fatally injured bicyclists had an elevated blood alcohol level. The average level was 0.18 g/dl, twice the legal limit for drivers in most states. And though inebriated riders need the most protection, only 5% of them bother to wear a helmet. What's next, designated cyclists...