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...idle question. Despite concerns about hardening arteries and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease), the average American still eats 95 lbs. (43 kg) of beef a year, and the average European puts away 40 lbs. (18 kg). Yet in taste terms, little of the 66 million tons of beef produced annually is worth the cholesterol it contains. All too often, unwitting consumers splurge on a steak dinner and end up with shoe leather. Thanks to anti-BSE measures and rising feed prices, most cattle are slaughtered at less than 30 months; they're too young and too crowded...
After a dusty 150-mile trek, I came face to face with a majestic 3,000 lbs. (1,400 kg) Palencian steer named Makalele, as terrible as the ancient aurochs. A nearby barn housed two more of the six retired farm animals that Gordón has been collecting from all over rural Spain and Portugal for his little restaurant. After a life of flavor-building labor, they are boarded here until they become sleek and relaxed from eating hay and grain, avoiding heifers, and listening to Latin disco pop. After sending them to that big pasture...
Italy's Ducati, which leads the pack in the sport and performance category, will cap production on its $72,500 Desmosedici RR at 1,500. Equipped with a 200-h.p. engine and weighing less than 370 lbs. (168 kg), the Desmosedici RR is one of the fastest street bikes on the planet. "Celebrities like motorcycles because they can go out for a ride with a helmet on and no one knows who they are," says Coldwells. It certainly would be easier to escape the paparazzi on one. Jay Leno and Tim Allen both have Ducatis, and Tom Cruise and Nicolas...
...with photovoltaic cells, which convert the sun's rays into roughly the same amount of energy needed to light a large Christmas tree. That solar power drives four electric engines, and loads four lithium batteries - a quarter of the aircraft's total weight of 3,300 lbs. (1,500 kg) - which allow the plane to continue flying through the night. Project director and co-pilot André Borschberg says that while labs around the world are developing lighter and more effective batteries, those currently available impose severe limits on the plane's weight. "With twice the battery capacity...
...hours in the arena is a strenuous workout. The mightily authentic shields, tridents and helmets weigh a daunting 3 kg all together, and I retired limp-wristed after only a fleeting bout in full apparel. Theo, made of sterner stuff, held his own in some simulated savagery that required throwing tridents javelin-style. I was happy to console myself with dinner at the hotel's rooftop, three-Michelin-star La Pergola restaurant, with views of the Colosseum. A two-hour course costs $580 for up to eight people (aged 12 and up) and will run throughout the Christmas school holidays...