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...after the vehicle went out of control. The passenger's family retained Merritt to sue the manufacturer, claiming that the accident occurred when one side of a poorly designed handle bar gave way and the driver lost his balance. Merritt based his argument on the cycle's skid marks. For videotaped proof, Gibbs roared around a paved cycle track, went into a long, heart-stopping skid and crashed. Harley-Davidson settled out of court...
Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco. A $350 million effort, in conjunction with Toronto-based real estate giant Olympia & York, to turn a 21-acre former Skid Row into a complex of festival-marketplace facilities, cafes, an amusement park inspired by Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens, and an underground convention center, which is nearing completion...
Maryknoll priests train for seven years, with fieldwork overseas or in the prisons or skid rows of the U.S. The challenge attracts only a handful nowadays (only three men will be ordained this year), but the Maryknoll Society remains the biggest U.S. Catholic foreign mission, with 765 priests, 109 brothers and 68 lay missioners. The separate order of Maryknoll Sisters has 975 nuns...
Route 115 approaches Freeport from the northwest, meandering through a series of small towns. It's dark at 1 a.m., and every dip sends car and driver down into the fog. But in the long, open stretches before Yarmouth, the moon is out, and clouds skid across its face. It's a good Maine road--frost heaves, of course--and it could be almost any place in the Pine Tree State. It could run just out of sight of the ocean up past Damariscotta and Pemaquid. It could run through potato country in Arostook. It could be bordered by blueberry...
...ultimate in racing realism comes from Tyco, which has put together a traditional slot car racing set with a twist--Supersound. Cars rev their motors, the starter's gun sounds, engines roar, tires squeal, and should there be a mishap, should the autos "skid and fly off the track," then there are the sounds of a real "CRRAAASH...