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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...
...generously to politicians in both parties, beginning in earnest in 1994 shortly before his son was to stand trial on conspiracy and cocaine-distribution charges. Prosecutors said the son deserved no quarter and expressed no remorse. Carlos was a key financier of a drug ring that transported about 800 lbs. of cocaine from L.A. to Minnesota in the early 1990s, and he came across as a blustery bully in tapes of wiretaps. He was sentenced to 15 years behind bars...
During a month at Mazlak camp, in the empty desert outside Herat, Hawaneen and his family received 15 lbs. of wheat and a handful of moldy dates. When his son first became ill with pneumonia, Hawaneen waited from dawn to dusk outside the camp clinic, along with hundreds of others stricken with tuberculosis, measles and bronchitis. At last it was Hawaneen's turn. "All they gave me for my son was this," he said helplessly, clutching a plastic strip that once held 12 aspirins...
...stop--about every 50 laps--a 16-man pit crew gasses you up, changes your tires, wipes the windshield. You swig some water; you'll lose 3 lbs. to 11 lbs. during a race. Your belts get looser, so tighten them up. "You don't want to move in the seat, you only want to steer the race car. You're just along for the ride...
...healthy. Here's a three-year-old dotcom that is not only still in business but also turning an annual profit of $640 million. It does so in part by being shamelessly overzealous: as a recent Tufts University review pointed out, even if you tell eDiets you are 15 lbs. underweight, it will recommend you join immediately...