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Training Wheels Inventor: Scott Shim, Matt Grossman and Ryan Lightbody Availability: In late 2006; $100 To Learn More: designapkin.com Learning to ride a bike can be fraught with anxiety, but it doesn't have to be. Industrial designers from Purdue University have invented the Shift tricycle, whose rear wheels move closer together as the rider picks up speed, then separate for easier balance at slower speeds or at a standstill. A spring-loaded mechanism in the rear hub controls the rear wheels, and there are no spokes or exposed bike chain. The 25-lb. aluminum trike won an international bike...
...RESIGNED. SHIM KI NAM, 51, chairman of South Korea's ruling Uri Party, following allegations that his father was a collaborator during Japan's 1910-45 occupation of the Korean Peninsula; in Seoul. Shin had denied rumors about his father's past until two men told local media last week that the elder Shin, who is deceased, had tortured them when he was a policeman. South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun had earlier said he would establish a commission to probe the sensitive period of Japan's colonial rule...
...Goldin and Shim noted a trend reversal in recent years...
Culling from Massachusetts birth records, Goldin and Shim concluded that the number of “name-keepers” among married college graduates across the state was 23 percent in 1990. The figure dipped to 20 percent in 1995, falling to 17 percent...
...Professor of Economics Claudia Goldin and former student Maria Shim ’01 suggested that the rising median age at first marriage, proliferation of contraceptive pills and the increasing number of women pursuing “advanced academic degrees” were among the social factors contributing to the trend towards women keeping their maiden names, which they traced back to the late 1970s...