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...displays a professionalism in his public appearances that must be the envy of many of Indonesia's current crop of less-than-media-savvy rulers. Watch Aa Gym as he tapes his minisermons in the small television studio run by one of his 15 companies. Hopping onto a motor scooter?his preferred ride is a hulking black Kawasaki Eliminator, which remains under its dust cover on this day?Aa Gym putters slowly through his little empire, a patch of about one square kilometer in Bandung that houses his myriad enterprises: the radio station; the website offices; the publisher that puts...
...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...
...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...