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...pack? A teleporter? No, it was the Segway scooter, a goofily innocuous machine that seems to have been designed solely so George W. Bush could tumble off one, as he did this summer in Maine. From dreams of rocket men flying across space-age cityscapes to visions of meter readers riding glorified hand trucks--this is what we get when we are so unfortunate as to live long enough to see the next big thing arrive...
Dubbed the Clown Prince of track and field, U.S. sprinter JON DRUMMOND threw a world-class tantrum in Paris last Sunday. He lay in his lane, refusing to budge, after he was disqualified from the 100-meter world-championship quarter-finals for a false start. Some hope officials will revisit their reliance on gate sensors. "If you so much as pass gas, you get a false start," says runner Kim Collins...
...nanoscopic hamlet of Top Station is the highest point on the road from Munnar to Kodaikanal and lies smack in the scruffy workaday heart of Kerala's main tea-growing region. Innumerable tons of the stuff that fills breakfast mugs around the world originates here, on the 1,600-meter-high ranges of the western Ghats. In the last days of the Raj, white planters came in their grateful droves, lured by the green hills and tolerable climate. Today, though, this is the domain of Indian agribusiness, and you'll barely see a non-Indian face. The only visitors tend...
...most critical mistake: designing a spaceship to fly horizontally like an airplane but launching it vertically like a rocket. That one decision saved $5 billion in the 1970s but led directly to the loss of both the Challenger and Columbia. "The problem is that once the shuttle is a meter or two off the ground, there is nothing you can do to save it if something goes wrong," says Corin Segal, an aerospace scientist at the University of Florida. NASA sponsors Segal's research into developing a launch system that would allow for horizontal takeoffs. He estimates that technology could...
...technology, such as the satellite-based global-positioning system, or GPS, have been installed with no apologies. Ports are cut in the ship's sides so that it can be propelled with paddles if there's no wind. The toilet, at least, can't be surpassed for authenticity: a meter-square box attached to the ship's starboard side, with a hole in the bottom and a canvas curtain across...