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Years ago, Tom Cruise and I raced cars at many of the same tracks. At Riverside Raceway in Southern California, our cars and motor homes happened to be parked side by side in the infield on race day. My wife recognized Cruise and asked him for an autograph. He said he was sorry, but he had to concentrate on the track. Oh, sure, I thought. Couldn't spare 10 seconds? The afternoon went by, and he had his races; I had mine. When we were all packing up, Cruise walked over to my wife as we were loading...
...included some encouraging if tentative findings: that a predominantly vegetarian diet may have beneficial effects for kidney and nerve function in diabetics, as well as for weight loss; that eating more fruits and vegetables can slow, and perhaps reverse, age-related declines in brain function and in cognitive and motor performance--at least in rats; that vegetarian seniors have a lower death rate and use less medication than meat-eating seniors; that vegetarians have a healthier total intake of fats and cholesterol but a less healthy intake of fatty acids (such as the heart-protecting omega-3 fatty acids found...
...Zealand that Richards encountered the technology that is taking the sport into a new dimension. Virtual Spectator, a computer-graphics company, had created Internet coverage of America's Cup races, showing the yachts' positions on a virtual ocean. Richards immediately thought, "This could work very well in motor racing." But it was a complex job. Virtual Spectator had to recreate exact pictures of all the courses with every tree and boulder, then use information sent back from the car by Global Positioning Systems to superimpose it on the virtual track. Because rallying is a series of time trials with cars...
...player in a poll of fans. In 1913 Wimbledon was accorded the title World's Championships on Grass. Though it is the only major championship still played on grass, the tournament remains the one that every player wants to win - because being Wimbledon champion means becoming part of history MOTOR RACING A Fine for the Ferrari Shuffle It comes to something when the excitement in Formula One happens in an office in Paris rather than on the track. A meeting of the International Automobile Federation (FIA) fined the Ferrari team and drivers Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello...
...diminutive 1.2 meters tall, it looks like a child wearing a spacesuit and walks with a deceptively natural gait that belies the whir of gears and motors emanating from its hard plastic body. Reacting to a person entering the lobby of Honda Motor Co.'s Wako Research Center just outside of Tokyo, the robot advances toward the reception desk, stops, bows and says in a prepubescent boy's voice: "Welcome to the Honda R. and D. center. My name is ASIMO." When the visitor offers to shake hands, ASIMO extends a mechanical hand in response. Then, on cue from...