Word: nascars
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...romance nurtured by NASCAR in Days of Thunder, tested by the Irish accents of Far and Away and pushed to the soft-core brink by Eyes Wide Shut. And now it's over. TOM CRUISE and NICOLE KIDMAN didn't make a single good movie together, but they were still the international glamour couple of the '90s, and when press rep Pat Kingsley announced the end of their 10-year marriage due to the "difficulties inherent in divergent careers," people the world over wondered what exactly Kingsley was talking about. Since the couple shared a vocation, worked together frequently...
...anymore. Sunday, in the last lap of the first and biggest race of the 2001 NASCAR season, the sport's greatest driver got tangled up with another car and slammed his trademark No. 3 black Chevrolet into the wall at the Daytona International Speedway. He was killed instantly...
...hard racing fans, an almost unimaginable tragedy. For NASCAR, perhaps, a blessing draped in black...
...still don't think you have an appreciation for what I'm talking about. It's not just real sports-- I've caught myself watching ice skating, NASCAR and pro bowling. Chicks playing nine-ball can be quality television, and, by the way, remember Roller Derby...
Which doesn't mean we're all going to spend the 21st century treating books like NASCAR racetracks. But as an effective tool for cramming large chunks of information (the technology it is based on is already a big hit with law students), Speeder Reader is proof positive that we also don't have to treat books like slabs of paper that sit on shelves anymore. Printed text, which has remained basically unchanged since Gutenberg first got his fingers inky, is about to bloom into a thousand different forms. The one you use will increasingly depend on what you need...