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...what about Vespa, you say, the little scooter? Well, I hooked up with Vespa once. We set off at midnight, bound for San Francisco, which was eight miles away, and didn't arrive until noon. The problem with Vespa is that it doesn't put out. (My Ford truck and I have our issues, but it puts...
...single motor scooter driving through Paris in the middle of the night can wake up as many as 200,000 people"? Oh, to be awakened like that in Paris! Anything would be better than the Harley-Davidson hell where I live. MARK JONAS Columbia, Calif...
...infuriated owners of Eurotunnel stock converged last week in a massive, hangar-like convention hall near Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport to topple the company's embattled, button-down board. Led by a fiery businessman with multiple fraud convictions and a chairman designate who likes to travel by motor scooter, the rebels then anointed a new board made up of unemployed executives, retirees, a sociologist and one man under investigation for money laundering (which he denies). Welcome to shareholder activism, French style. Their prize: the company that built and operates the Channel Tunnel, the rail link beneath the English Channel...
...battling terrorism. It will also extend from two to four days the period police can detain suspects before filing charges, and introduce American-style plea bargaining. Conservative Justice Minister Dominique Perben noted that it "applies to just 15 precise crime categories," and won't be used against "a motor scooter or apple thief." Opponents argue that the new law requires virtually no proof of a suspect's guilt before the police may use the extended powers, and provides no legal recourse to innocent people who've been unjustly detained. They also worry that plea bargaining will cut courts...
Just about everybody agrees that we would be better off using hydrogen instead of gas for fuel. For starters, hydrogen makes water vapor instead of carbon monoxide when it's burned. But building a safe, efficient hydrogen vehicle is another matter. Enter the Aqwon, the first hydrogen-powered scooter to meet Germany's stringent regulatory standards. The Aqwon can hit 30 m.p.h. with its two-stroke engine, but the biggest challenge was building a fuel tank that could safely store the hydrogen. In case of accident or fire, the Aqwon's tank simply freezes. If only the Hindenburg...