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...tour of the Minneapolis, Minn., riverfront and such historic landmarks as the Stone Arch Bridge and the Mill City Museum can take a lot of time and shoe leather. But Bill and Emily Neuenschwander's tours can guide you through much of the city's history quickly, with a nod to the future: the mode of transportation is the Segway Human Transporter. The Neuenschwanders started offering tours via the scooter-like device this spring as a sideline to their computer-consulting business. Now they have a fleet of 21 Segways and are attracting 150 customers a week...
...song, so start the music." He was born on Feb. 6, 1911, in Tampico, Ill., in that Midwestern heartland that is thought to be the seedbed of national heroes. But nothing about his origins augured any remarkable success. His father Jack, who had never reached high school, was a shoe salesman and an alcoholic. The family moved often; money was short. Reagan was 11 when he came home one day and found his father lying dead drunk on the porch. "I wanted to ... pretend he wasn't there," Reagan recalled. "I bent over him, smelling the sharp odor of whiskey...
...shoe-gazing white-boy rock bands from England, melancholy isn't a pose so much as a pleasant vacation from despondency. That said, this brooding, expansive, 6-min. end-of-summer anthem has a chorus with a hint of optimism--"Light up, light up, as if you have a choice/Even if you cannot hear my voice/I'll be right beside you dear"--as well as the requisite lyric about long goodbyes and a soaring vocal by singer Gary Lightbody. It's also being pushed heavily by iTunes (it's currently the site's free download of the week) and record...
...beret that U.S. athletes wore at the opening ceremonies. Fans bought more than 1 million replicas of the little blue hat made by Roots, an official outfitter of the team. Consumers looking to commemorate the Summer Games in Athens will have a few more options. In May the shoe company Camper introduced a limited-edition collection of sandals with photographs of athletes from past Games on the insoles. Hogan's Olympia collection of leather sneakers is dedicated to the 2004 Olympics, while track-and-field champion Jesse Owens was the inspiration for Tod's Owens line of shoes and bags...
...like the show, is best when the writer gets out of the way of the story. When young Timmy breaks a neighbor's window, what's poignant is not so much that his father makes him fess up as that Big Russ wraps the broken glass neatly in a shoe box so that "the guys" hauling it away won't cut themselves. --By John F. Dickerson