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...Formula One has become one of the great sporting festivals. The 2008 World Championship resumes in Bahrain on April 6 and continues at an appropriately frenetic pace until the 18-race show winds up in São Paulo, Brazil, on Nov. 2. Along the way, F1 rubber will burn on four continents, drawing in more than half a billion television viewers. Between them, the 11 teams have spent about $3 billion in their quest to be fastest. Throw into the mix the kind of A-list celebrities you used to see ringside at heavyweight title fights, and a scattering...
Picture Time With their rubber-grip feet and limbs that can wrap around trees, posts or jutting mountain rocks, flexible Gorillapods from Joby ($22 to $50) let you stabilize your camera even when you're not on flat ground...
...What Would You Say? hit Billboard's Top 10 in 1973. But to industry types, Norman Smith was better known as the longtime engineer, or technician in chief, for the Beatles. Smith, nicknamed "Normal" by John Lennon, worked with producer George Martin on every Beatles recording through 1965's Rubber Soul. Later, as a producer, Smith helped usher in the psychedelic era by discovering and signing Pink Floyd after watching their trippy act at London's UFO club...
...failure, like everything else he tried, but he caught the Amazon bug, and 10 years later he pulled off the one spectacular success of his life. In defiance of malaria, anacondas, electric eels, freshwater stingrays, Confederate colonists, customs inspectors and Yanomamo tribesmen, he smuggled 70,000 priceless rubber-tree seeds out of Brazil and back to England...
...Harvard will face Cornell in the first round of the ECAC playoffs, a best-out-of-three series at the Bright Hockey Center. The opening faceoff of the first game is set for tonight at 7 p.m. Game 2 takes place tomorrow at 4 p.m., with the rubber match on Sunday at the same time if necessary.The Big Red (12-15-1, 9-12-1 ECAC) is a familiar sight for the Crimson at this point. The two teams faced off in the final game of the regular season last Saturday. Harvard came away with a 4-2 victory, scoring...