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...tasted crap," Schilling said. "Worse. It tasted of potatoes." Schilling, 54, was tasked with reviving Rwandan agriculture for usaid. So with almost 40% of the country farming coffee - more than 3 million people - he became a coffee expert. The key to a good cup, he discovered, was processing and speed. The sooner and more expertly coffee cherries are processed - stripped, washed, sorted and dried - the better the coffee. In 2003, for $120,000, he built Rwanda's first coffee-washing station on a stream next to some farms in Maraba...
What could be seen as child's play is in fact a proving ground for the pros. The current leader in the Formula One drivers' championship, rookie Lewis Hamilton, 22, first picked up speed piloting karts as an 8-year-old. And he's not alone, even on his Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team. Hamilton's teammate and rival at McLaren, current world champion Fernando Alonso, started out racing the mini machines too. In fact, almost all of today's Formula One drivers, as well as past greats like Brazilian Ayrton Senna and Germany's Michael Schumacher, owe a debt...
...first karts pieced together from steel tubing and lawnmower engines in late 1950s California. Sure, karts typically lack gears, and there's no suspension to speak of. But there's often a push-button starter, a hydraulic disk brake, and a tiny onboard computer that measures everything from average speed to G-force. In the cadet class for the youngest competitive drivers like Nelson, the karts' 60-cc engines clock speeds of around 50 m.p.h. (80 km/h). The junior classes - open to racers from around 12 - have 100-cc to 125-cc motors that top 75 m.p.h. (120 km/h...
...lunch lines weren't moving fast enough for Linda Stoll, head of food programs at the Boulder Valley, Colo., school district. Because of that, kids had barely enough time to sit and eat before the lunch period was over. So, last year, Stoll began looking for ways to speed up the queue. She discovered that many students, especially kindergarteners, can't remember their six-digit ID number, which they're required to type into keypads at the end of lunch lines. She then found out that there was technology that would allow a scanner to identify a kid qualified...
...truth is, if homeland security money were truly distributed based on risk, there would be no guaranteed minimum at all. Guaranteed minimums are useful only for getting states up to speed - or for pork-barrel indulgences. At this point, all states have received enough money to set up a basic emergency infrastructure. So the rational thing to do would be to focus our limited resources on high-density, high-risk locations. But Congress is not rational. The Senate gives disproportionate power to small states, and those states do not want to lose their homeland-security entitlements. So the result...