Word: scooter
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...needs the mountains when you've got the Sears Tower? Why hit the slopes when you've got the local shopping mall? The newest fad in extreme sports is urban adventure racing, in which teams compete to scale buildings, scooter through busy intersections and dart on foot through crowded stadiums. Chicago was host to the first one, the 24-hour "Wild Onion," two years ago, and is getting ready for its third race this weekend. The 600 participants won't have much time to train: the course is a secret until two hours before the start...
...just ride in cars--a top U.S. inventor has transformed the lowly scooter into what he calls a high-tech "human transporter," while the humble bicycle is poised to incorporate a few tricks...
...wand and make every car fuel efficient, it wouldn't solve all our problems," says Dean Kamen, founder of DEKA Research in Manchester, N.H. "It is still very energy intensive to move a 2,000- or 3,000-pound machine." His solution: the Segway, the recently unveiled high-end scooter that goes up to 13 m.p.h., is powered by an electric motor and runs on just a nickel's worth of electricity a day. The batteries today are standard nickel- metal hydride and nickel-cadmium, but the scooters could easily be switched over to a hydrogen-based power source...
Just after dawn the old city begins to wake. The jackhammer throb of a thousand electricity generators competes with raucous Hindi music blasting from the stereos they have brought to life. A discordant orchestra of scooter bleats, car horns, rickshaw chimes and temple bells nearly drowns out one of the day's early funeral processions. The cortege turns into the packed alleys surrounding the Golden Temple, where lanes that barely fit two abreast are thronged with devotees, foreheads smeared with vermilion tikka, a blessing from the temple priest...
...hard data, though, lies a more stirring story about reconciliation on both sides of the fence. Pete Peterson, a pow for six years in Hanoi, returned to the country as U.S. ambassador in 1997 and quickly ingratiated himself with its people by riding around town on his motor scooter and marrying a Vietnamese woman...