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That's one reason many competitors in the race for a new engine remain exceedingly dubious. "I consider Rosen Motors to be a very small part of the overall flywheel effort," says Joe Beno, program manager for the electric-vehicle program at the University of Texas at Austin, whose group will put a flywheel motor in a commercial bus in Houston next year. Kevin M. Myles, director of the electrochemical technology program at Argonne National Laboratory, who has done extensive work with alternative-fuel vehicles, doesn't think the Rosens have addressed the safety problems inherent in flywheels. A wheel...
AUTO RACING Proposed marketing restrictions could put the brakes on tobacco-fueled motor sports...
...Taylor met her last husband at the Betty Ford Clinic. Now that Larry Fortensky is single again, could he be headed back to rehab? Police arrested him outside an illegally parked motor home for investigation of being under the influence of a controlled substance. "This just shows how victimized and vulnerable he is," says his lawyer, Raoul Felder, who adds that Fortensky was taking prescription medicine...
...paralyzed patients have been given 4-AP in clinical trials, and about one-third of them have regained some function. Keith Hayes, a neuroscientist at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, who has been involved in the trials, says, "We have seen improvements in sensation and motor function, reduced spasticity and reduced pain, and improvement in bowel, bladder and sexual functions." MS researchers may come up with yet another useful therapy for spinal-cord injuries. At the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, Dr. Moses Rodriguez is testing the use of antibodies as catalysts for the making of myelin...
...Bailey, who defended Patty--a.k.a. terrorist Tania--in the 1970s, has his own book idea. According to Variety, it will feature O.J. Simpson and Hearst, who he says breached attorney-client privilege by badmouthing him. So he's breaching it too. Scoffs Hearst: "That's like saying motor-traffic laws no longer apply...