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...will now be forever known as “Pulling a Ron Artest.” In one fell swoop, he proceeded to pummel a succession of drunken, painfully unathletic fans—a skinny guy and a fat guy, in fact—as an entire crowd of Motor City hooligans descended upon...
...will have to stop. To keep that from happening, the club is calling on the government to?of course!?reduce the gambling tax. On average, 13.5% of every bet is skimmed off by the taxman. Wong, a Michigan State University engineering graduate who worked for 30 years at Ford Motor Co. before becoming jockey-club CEO in 1996, says that rate is among the highest on horse racing in the world?so high, Wong maintains, that it encourages competition in the form of unlicensed bookies who can offer better odds because they tithe nothing. The situation "sets up Hong Kong...
Rutan personally designed their craft, SpaceShipOne, a vehicle as improbable as it is revolutionary. The size of a small biplane, SpaceShipOne is a shell of woven graphite glued onto a rocket motor that runs on laughing gas and rubber. The nose is punctuated by portholes, like an ocean liner. Inside, the critical instrument is a Ping-Pong ball decorated with a smiley face and attached to the cabin with a piece of string, which goes slack when the pilot reaches the zero-gravity of suborbital space...
...Escape Hybrid's gas engine is a modest four-cylinder, 2.3-liter unit. But its electric motor gives it extra juice for a combined 155 hp. The motor is powered by a 250-lb. battery pack that lies flat beneath the cargo area, where the spare tire would normally go. The battery is automatically recharged during driving and braking...
What I have always liked best about hybrids is the complete silence you enjoy when they're running on the electric motor. So it was all the more jarring to hear the gas engine rumble on at unexpected moments. The Escape Hybrid can run solely on electric power when idling and at speeds of up to 25 m.p.h. But unless you accelerate gently, the engine will come on at lower speeds. Also, the engine revved noticeably loudly when I increased speed on the freeway...