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...delivered just before the start of the race. "I was rude to my family in the morning," he says. "I reminded them that they'd promised to go away for a couple of hours in the afternoon." What does he love about F1? Screaming engines are high on the list - and here he mimics one amid the Friday afternoon hubbub of an inner-city pub. His greatest fear, he says, is not to be watching when the luckless Australian driver for the Red Bull team, Mark Webber, finally wins a Grand Prix. That certainly didn't happen in Melbourne...
...Paulo, Brazil, on Nov. 2. Along the way, F1 rubber will burn on four continents, drawing in more than half a billion television viewers. Between them, the 11 teams have spent about $3 billion in their quest to be fastest. Throw into the mix the kind of A-list celebrities you used to see ringside at heavyweight title fights, and a scattering of supermodels and pop princesses, and F1 stands alone as a corporate and entertainment phenomenon...
...total number of species that Bill Clinton added to the endangered-species list during his two terms as President; George H.W. Bush designated 231 species in one term...
...total number of species that George W. Bush's Administration has added to the list in the past seven years; WildEarth Guardians has filed a lawsuit to add 681 species at once...
...more he protested poverty, denounced the Vietnam War and lamented the unconscious racism of many whites, the more he lost favor and footing in white America. For the first time in almost a decade, in January 1967 King's name was left off the Gallup-poll list of the 10 most admired Americans. Financial support for his organization nearly dried up. Mainstream publications turned on him for diving into foreign policy matters supposedly far beyond his depth. Universities withdrew lecture invitations. And no American publisher was eager to publish a book by the leader. In many ways King was socially...