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...owning one unless you are prepared to go somewhat out on the edge. Biking requires a special degree of both abandonment and focus, an unscrolling story line of concentration on intersecting factors that your average car driver is muffled from: road surface, camber, radius of curve, angle of attack, lean. It connotes a unique mixture of aggression and vulnerability, and to have owned a fast bike is, in some degree, to be inoculated against the bloated status envy that goes with the plushier forms of American motoring. Bike manufacturers have gone to inordinate lengths to make bikes seem respectable...
...Snoop, he is undoubtedly a charismatic performer. His rapping style has a casual intensity, and he describes scenes of street life with a cool offhandedness, building the tension in his songs in long, lean lines of lyrics, spun out in his Southern drawl. He may be a gangsta, he may have a controversial past, but there is something likable about him, almost fuzzy, sort of cartoon-like, definitely marketable...
Chalk it up to maturity. At 29, in his 10th major league season, the unusually lean slugger has learned that discipline at the plate can be just as valuable as brute strength. His raw skills were never in question (he has belted 36 or more dingers in each of the past three years), but his judgment needed seasoning. "A few years ago, I was trying to do too much," he says. "I'd go to the home plate with no idea and swing at everything...
Remember this scene? San Diego, 1996. Bob Dole steps up to the podium for his acceptance speech at the Republican Convention. He looks lean and hungry, the faithful are cheering, so midway through the speech, Dole stares into the cameras and decides to uncork. "To the teachers' unions, I say, when I am President, I will disregard your political power," he bellows. "If education were a war, you would be losing it." Dole says he is not talking "to the teachers, but to the unions," but it doesn't matter. Democrats seize on Dole's screed and cast...
...software that consolidates mountains of manufacturing data. The people who need it include rows of shop-floor engineers, whom mechanics can summon for help by flicking on a light. (Yellow indicates a question, and red is "urgent.") At the same time, Boeing is switching to the Japanese practice of lean inventory management that delivers parts and tools to workers precisely as needed. At a 500,000-sq.-ft. parts plant in Auburn, Wash., assembly teams build everything from wing parts to landing-gear doors in self-contained "cells" that replaced assembly lines that snaked from wall to wall...