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...first thing Peter Haugen noticed was that the dents in his mom's car were multiplying. Then the Osterville, Mass., software engineer learned that his mother, 85, had confused the brake and the gas pedal and ended up, unhurt, atop a stone wall. He pleaded with her to stop driving. He spoke to her doctor. He even persuaded her to see a geropsychologist...
...around 100 visitors a day. With a population of 36 million, Burma has more than twice as many citizens as Australia; yet the entire country has only a third as many hotel rooms as the Las Vegas Hilton. Along the road to Mandalay, the nation's second city, locals pedal away furiously in trishaws, and in Pagan, the nation's great temple-filled tourist site and one of the architectural wonders of Asia, the principal method of transportation is horse-drawn carts...
Cowboy Troy's debut album, Loco Motive, was just released on the Muzik Mafia's Warner Bros. imprint, Raybaw (red and yellow, black and white) Records. Says Troy: "I'm rapping over pedal-steel guitar, lap steel, Dobro, fiddle and other country instruments. In the Muzik Mafia we call it hick-hop, and we think its time has come. Country is ready to expand its boundaries." There are signs he may be right. Nelly and Tim McGraw recently had a hit with the style-mixing duet Over and Over, Jack White of the White Stripes produced a Grammy-winning album...
From one song to the next few people let their eyes wander from the stage. Bobbing their heads softly, they watched Gonzalez spin from keyboard to pedal board. He played guitar solos and ducked down out of sight when the electronics took over; his laptop was out of sight but ever-present...
...think they're better drivers than they really are, school starts with a lesson in braking for the eight enrollees. "I'm sure you're all experts at flooring the accelerator," says Matt Mullins, one of the instructors, "but how many of you are used to flooring the brake pedal?" No hands go up, and Mullins proceeds to illustrate how to recover from a spinout, slide through a curve, aim for the apex in a corner and accelerate out. Geared up with helmets, we head out to the skid pad, then move on to a lesson in heel-toe technique...