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...HORSEPOWER An Alabaman protested high gas prices by taking his buggy for a spin. It was a short ride: horses are not allowed on interstate highways...
...another is surprisingly useful. So in mid-May, Mayor Darwin Hindman, who at 71 still bikes to work, kicked off Bike, Walk and Wheel Week to coax residents to commute and shop without cars. Mayor Hindman and local Congressman Kenny Hulshof led dozens of cyclists on a 4-mile ride. A week later, volunteers were serving breakfast all over town for anyone walking, cycling or rolling in a wheelchair...
Sixty years later, the power of that day has, if anything, grown, the mythology swollen in movies and memory. We got to embrace an image of our place in the world and its wars that has shaped every fight that followed. The Americans are the ones who ride to the rescue, vanquish the enemy, get hailed as liberators, set everything right and then come home having left a place better than we found it. The facts are never that clean, but the expectation has its own power, and every President who sent soldiers abroad has followed a similar script. Ronald...
AVOID OFF-SHORING Have you received spam from Costa Rican off-track-betting facilities offering juicy rebates? Ignore it. These shops aren't regulated and can easily take you for a ride. "A novice should have his head examined if he bets with one of these places," says Richard Bomze, president of the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association...
Gangsters and GoodFellas is far more freewheeling and ring-a-ding-ding. In a sequel of sorts to the tightly wound Pileggi original, Hill sweeps readers along on a wild ride through the witness-protection program as he tries in vain to fit in after the feds relocate him from New York City's fast lane to slow-as-molasses Hicksville, Ky. ("Kentucky was like a foreign country," he recalls. "They'd speak in that real Appalachian, southern accent. No capiche...