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...days, and you're likely to get a sturdy steed with hydraulic or mechanical disk brakes, which will help prevent you from skidding out of control when descending a steep incline. A few years ago, the technology appealed mainly to downhill racers, but it has since become widespread. New rear suspensions allow bikers to alter their mount's shock-absorbing capacity to accommodate the terrain. This year Specialized launched a line of bikes, Epic ($1,900+), whose suspension system, called "the Brain," automatically adjusts the rear shock according to the impact of the bumps...
...parliamentary scrutiny of military spending. Hospital Blast RUSSIA More than 41 people were killed and many more injured when a suicide bomber crashed a truck reportedly laden with more than a ton of explosives into the military hospital in Mozdok, the town in Northern Ossetia that is the principal rear base for the Russian war effort in Chechnya. The main hospital building was leveled. Last June a suicide bomber killed 20 people in the town, and Chechen guerrillas are known to move freely in the area. No one has claimed responsibility for the latest raid, but hard-line Islamist guerrillas...
...When the data was finally uploaded, I strapped on my helmet and oxygen mask and slid into the co-pilot's seat in the front row. Blood was on my right, and Chanel and Sidler occupied the rear seats. As the engines roared, I realized I had forgotten a significant piece of gear: my barf bag. I clicked on my microphone and warned the crew of my oversight. Blood gestured toward my gloves. "If you really need it, you've got a barf bag on each hand...
...fully expected to find Hugo reading the newspaper. Not Chester. Chester would try to make his way through a narrow sliding door, find himself stuck halfway and then look at me with total and quite genuine puzzlement. I don't think he ever got to understand that the rear part of him was actually attached to the front...
...Wear, now in reruns on BBC America. "There are things not even your best friends will tell you" about how you look, say fashionista inquisitors Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine. "But we're not your best friends. And we will." For instance, those track pants make your rear end look like a watermelon. Your overtight bra makes you look as if you have four breasts. And that casual outfit is "a little bit Mr. Garbage Collector." What Not subjects win a £2,000 ($3,300) shopping spree, with a catch: they have to turn themselves and their closets over...