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...endorsements, will bring his income close to $375,000 this year. But money is the least of it-or so he insists. Unlike most racers, Merckx did not take up the sport to escape from poverty. The son of a well-to-do Brussels grocer, Eddy says simply: "I pedal because I love to ride a bike." He was barely 19 in 1964, when he won the world amateur championship. After turning pro, he won his first big race, the Milan-San Remo in 1966. The following year, he became world professional champion; since then, he has won every major...
Hardly anything could be simpler: you hop on, grab the handlebars, press down on a pedal and roll off. Indeed, it is so easy for most people to ride a bicycle that science has hardly bothered to answer a very obvious question: What gives the bicycle its extraordinary stability? Properly curious, a British research chemist named David E.H. Jones decided to do a little backyard experimenting. His plan: to identify the bicycle's essential stabilizing features by building one that completely lacked them. In short, he would construct a totally unridable bicycle...
...play reinforces my earlier prejudice against the undisciplined use of rock music in a non-musical play. The music was incongruous in context and dragged on through six consecutive ballads (each thoroughly modernized). Then, about a dozen men, the Satyrs, rushed in-bare-cheated with funny fur-trimmed pedal pushers-to dance a lascivious, arm-flailing ritual. I felt suddenly nostalgic for the famous sheepshearing scene in The Winter's Tale that I always had been told was life affirming and graceful. I tried to single out Perdita and Florizel in the crowd and my eye fell on them gleefully...
...light works were also shown, and my favorite was Takis's "Anti-Gravity," To use this, you press a foot-pedal which turns on a large electromagnetic shield. Then you can throw nails against it, in designs or handfuls, and they will stick like porcupine's quills...
...doubt about the effectiveness of her approach among the masses of India's voters. Privately, she seems aware that too rapid a shift toward socialism would damage India's fragile economy and alienate its budding middle class, and she has her foot firmly on the brake pedal. In public, her commitment to socialism knows no bounds-"not because it is a glamorous word," as she said in Bombay, "but because there is no other path for the solution to these problems. The question is, can we do it?" For Indira's half a billion people, there...