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Small cars are nothing new. But how about one so tiny you can park it perpendicular to the curb, even in a parallel-parking zone? Try to imagine a car so simple that a 14-year-old may drive it without a permit, that requires no license plates because it need not be registered, that can be insured at less than a quarter of the rate for regular automobiles, and that is durable and so efficient it can travel 60 miles on one-half to three-quarters of a gallon of diesel fuel...
...best walking is a liberation, and a way of thinking. A creature like Toad is not a tree, but is designed to move across earth's surface, perpendicular to gravity and companioned by time. Somehow walking, thought Toad in his mellower moments, makes time a passage that is not only bearable but also sweet and festooned with an everlastingly changing array of scenery...
...Harvard group found, for example, that pressure waves travel more quickly when moving parallel to the earth's axis than when they are perpendicular. That could be explained if the solid inner core were a crystal, in which waves would travel at different speeds along different axes, but molten iron is hardly crystalline. Instead, Don Anderson and his colleagues at Caltech's seismological lab postulated the existence of iron rain. Their theory: the polar regions of the core are slightly flattened and tend to be cooler than the equatorial regions. The heat exchange between the two areas may then result...
...senior Andy Janfaza didn't need much time to bring the Crimson back. Driving into the left corner of the Clarkson end 30 seconds later, Janfaza reared and flipped a shot that slid perpendicular to the Clarkson net before hitting goaltender John Fletcher's pads and bouncing...
Against Cornell, Crimson goalie John Devin made an incredible save off a shot by Jim Goerz in the opening minutes of the middle period. Devin was perpendicular to the net as he made the kick save...