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...beyond a joke. His car is crawling in a line of vehicles that snakes up the main road to the beachside suburb of Vouliagmeni, stymied by a local bus that seems to stop every 50 m. "One hundred fifty-six euros," Spyros says, nodding enviously at the empty outside lane. The five red rings on the shimmering asphalt mark it as reserved for official Olympic transport, and the fine is savage...
...night. For such an important event, an Olympic final seems rather short on ceremony. The women's semis over, the eight men emerge from a waiting room. As they're introduced, Australian hands rustle in backpacks and bigger banners are produced. The last man, Canadian Rick Say, in Lane 8, waves to the crowd and takes off his track suit. Then they're on the blocks and, as if by telepathy - no chance of hearing the starter above the noise of the crowd - they're porpoising in unison toward their first stroke...
...call quality, says Lisa Pierce, an analyst at Forrester Research. AT&T, on the other hand, has its own network. Over time, she says, Vonage will lose out to the telcos' marketing muscle and deep technical expertise. "It's a question of being passed in the far left lane," she says...
...those days I was too civilized to act on my thuggish impulses. The worst I did was give the finger or blast my horn. But speed? Certainly not. And change lanes without signaling? That was too dangerous. Miami, however, is a land of U-turns both physical and psychological. The streets are all long and straight and you’re always driving in a cardinal direction. So when you want to turn around you just pull into the left lane and throw the wheel as far as it goes...
...FROGS In this update of Greek theater via Stephen Sondheim in New York City, Nathan Lane battles a "Bully Bush Frog"--a creature that "makes pre-emptive strikes and forgets why it attacked in the first place...