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...least we never see them. Over the last year, this engineering showdown (which airs new episodes starting Sept. 12) quietly became the class of the reality-TV field, turning groups of tinkerers loose on a scrap heap to build cannons, gliders, rockets and the like out of detritus, then pit their improvised creations against each other. With humor and an adorable host (Cathy Rogers, the thinking viewer's Julie Chen)--and without the robo-macho aggressiveness of Comedy Central's BattleBots--Junkyard shows that, sometimes, making smart, escapist TV is rocket science...
Look west anywhere in Salt Lake Valley and you won't see the future--Americans' traditional association with that compass point--but the past. In Bingham Canyon, at the foot of the Oquirrh Mountains, five generations of copper miners spanning the 20th century have cleared a pit three-fourths of a mile deep and more than 2 miles across, seemingly large enough to catch the expansive Utah sky should it ever fall in. The sky hangs securely above, but the state's economy, which since 1988 had seemed equally horizonless, has slipped with everyone else's into a canyon-like...
...site like Sonicnet.com is like finding a date in the personal ads. All you have to do is scan the list of descriptions, and eventually you'll find the one that's approximately right for you. Globetrotter? To start, there's "African Experience" and "Brazilia." Headbanger? Try "The Pit" (metal) or "Axis" (adult alternative). With sites like Live365.com that provide average Joes with the bandwidth to open up their record collection to thousands of listeners a day, and sites like indiePOPradio.com that link users to stations geared toward particular interests, the Web holds out the promise of delivering radio from...
This is why it is so important that we stand with our allies worldwide to combat terrorism. That this battle doesn’t pit the largest and most powerful nation in the world against one of the poorest and most miserable. That we do not allow ourselves to stoop to the level of revenge, revenge which could never be commensurate to our loss because our loss is incalculable. This is not war in the traditional sense...
...back rivals and, if possible, scoring points for the team - since 1999, when he took it over from Irvine. Barrichello was unhappy, though, to be reminded of his position at this year's Austrian Grand Prix. Ahead of his teammate for a change, Barrichello got repeated instructions from the pit to pull over and let Schumacher pass, which he ostentatiously did at the last corner. But there are compensations, as Williams points out: "It is a top team, a class act and being part of it is very educational for the driver." Says Verstappen: "To be the second driver...