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...cool Nevada morning air was filled with the quaking rumble of the 1972 Dodge Charger in front of me. A three-week-old blue 2003 Subaru WRX edged up behind me. We'd all been waiting for this moment for days or, in my case, a lifetime, and the deliciously deserted road beckoned. The Charger, rescued from a junkyard a decade ago and painted "Richard Petty blue," roared off when the light changed. It hit 100 m.p.h. with ease and sped toward the vanishing point down Highway...
...public track at Nurburgring. Italians simply get in their cars. But in 65-m.p.h. America, the opportunity to hurtle down an empty, cop-free piece of concrete under a clear sky has been limited. One day soon it may not be. Though open-road racing began in Nevada in 1988, this year will see more sanctioned events--nine in three different states--than ever. Open-road racing takes place over a prescribed distance on closed public highways and under strict safety conditions. Most races are open to all comers who can pay the roughly $650 in fees and pass...
...road we raced on--93A from Wendover, in the state's northeast corner, south toward Ely--was smooth and well marked, with enough turns and hills to keep it challenging and still fast. I swept around curves at 95 m.p.h., took a moment to admire the Nevada mountains at 105 and waved at course workers at 110. I got used to scanning my field of vision miles out in front (as pilots do), to the hypersensitivity of the car, to movements of the wheel and the wind noise. I hit 120 when my co-pilot, Andy Monheiser, reminded...
...hardly unique. States across the nation are struggling with falling revenues and budget crises, and overall spending by the states is set to decline for the first time in 20 years. New York is hiking income and sales taxes, Alaska is charging higher fees on studded tires, and Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn is suing the state assembly for failing to pass a budget on time. In 2000, the states had rainy-day funds that totaled nearly $50 billion; last week only $6 billion of that was left. But California, with its $38 billion deficit, is in a class...
...Hollywood Boulevard to Universal Studios, it is not for Angelenos. Instead, L.A.’s coffee cognoscenti head to the Mecca of Mocha: the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. There are 104 branches of the Coffee Bean in Southern California, and, apart from a handful in Arizona and Nevada, not a single branch exists elsewhere in the country...