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Also on April 16, Ladi O. Balogun, A Harvard Business School student, was stopped for speeding near Arrow Street by CPD officers. Balogun was given several field sobriety tests, which police said he failed. Balogun was arrested for operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POLICE LOG | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...Huffy's website www.getabuzz.com) My demo came in the mail--a box neatly packed with a collapsed 48-lb. lime-green electric scooter. I groaned, thinking that hours of assembly were required. They weren't. The scooter, which is powered by a 24-volt battery and belt-drive motor, is an ingenious collection of folded-up parts and snap-on components that took me about 15 minutes to put together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking an E-Ride | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...bike industry for years. Its popular Zappy (also $649) is lots of fun to drive, but pound for pound offers less value than the Buzz. The Zappy looks like the skateboard scooters we made as kids. You stand on it (no seat) and start by kicking off. The electric motor cuts in at that point, and you can cruise at 13 m.p.h. for about eight miles. Its throttle, unlike the Buzz's, is not variable, only on/off, which makes the experience more challenging and herky-jerky. In June, ZAP is coming out with a sit-down model (code-named Pappy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking an E-Ride | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

CITY Water running off paved surfaces carries toxins like motor oil into rivers. Inadequately treated sewage makes things worse. New sewage-treatment plants must be built and wetlands preserved to allow rainwater to filter through soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving the Salmon | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...their credit, not every Harvard inventor is stinking rich--at least not yet. Daniel H. Schumann '94 is following his father, Helmut W. Schumann '41, in turning invention into a career. Papa Schumann held patents for the high-speed motors that powered instruments on US bombers during World War II. Son Daniel got his start in the Engineering Department; his junior project offered a 1984-ish solution for office building security. It proposed connecting a booth to a building's entrance. The entrance would be password-protected and impenetrable until the booth's door was secured. The chamber's claustrophobic...

Author: By With DEBRA P. hunter and Richard Parr, S | Title: Patent No. 02138: A Brief History of Undergraduate Inventions | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

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