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Just last month, another tiger shook up New York City after it escaped from a circus in Queens. The animal caused a multicar crack-up but no serious injuries when it strolled down the Jackie Robinson Parkway and lay down on a nearby street. A handler lured the tiger back into its cage and returned it to the circus...
...entrant in the captive game: choo-choos for the Wayne Newton crowd. The $650 million Las Vegas Monorail, scheduled to open early next year, will run along the east side of the fabled Strip, carrying gamblers between casinos like the MGM Grand and Harrah's. Several companies will sponsor multicar trains, blanketing each car with logos and promotions. Hansen's Beverage has signed a 10-year, $10 million deal to sponsor the Monster train (named for its Monster Energy drink) and plans to give drink samples to passengers and display video ads. "We prefer to call it a totally immersive...
What are memoirs, really, but an invitation to rubberneck at the multicar pileups in someone else's life? Rebecca Walker's foray into the genre, Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self (Riverhead Books; 320 pages; $23.95), is plenty gapeworthy. Her book teems with childhood wreckage: premature sex, reckless drug experimentation, the end of her parents' interracial marriage, and her own consistently tenuous relationships born of desperation. Interwoven are heartrending but barbed recollections of absent, distracted parents--a self-absorbed mother, writer Alice Walker, who hires someone to take her daughter clothes shopping because she is "too busy...
...Jeep slams to a halt, throwing us painfully against our seat belts. "Oops," Zyburt says sheepishly. He has accidentally bumped into the system-override "kill'' button set in the back seat. If this had been a real smartway, we might have found ourselves at the business end of a multicar pileup...
Bruggeman believes that playing with trains has a deep appeal for men: "The investor extends his childhood dreams by first buying an oil car, then adding a liquid gas car, then one for chemicals, and finally an automobile transporter." Many multicar families among Algeco's 6,000 investors have their names engraved on the sides of their railroad cars and often appear at the company's offices off the Champs Elysees to check on the location of their cars. Co-Presidents Bruggeman and Thomachot encourage this personal interest by inviting visiting investors to "drop by for a whisky...