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...countless more karting titles followed before he made the switch to cars in 2001. En route to winning the entry-level British Formula Renault series in 2003, he "made seasoned drivers look silly," says Tony Shaw, Hamilton's then team manager at Manor Motorsport. Hamilton's raw, natural speed and canny race craft nudged him closer to the big leagues. Hamilton's "understanding of when and where to overtake and how to take advantage of a situation is very advanced," Shaw says...
...looking for scattered vestiges of their country's 50-year rule on the island, but Westerners have only trickled in, deterred by the four-hour-plus train ride or stop-and-start bus trip down Taiwan's congested west coast. That is expected to change now that the high-speed train makes Tainan an easy day-trip...
...made an impression, created that "Adam Brody type." And what he really wants to do is to take that type and put him in an action movie--something, he says, like Dustin Hoffman's character in Marathon Man. Or like the lead in the Wachowski brothers' Speed Racer, which he lost to Emile Hirsch. Or, and this is when his nerdiness does finally, yes, reveal itself, the kind of action comedies that Harrison Ford did. "Like when he's talking to Princess Leia--that Han Solo attitude!" he says. "Like 'Listen, sister: Stop bitching!'" I'm a little afraid...
...Meanwhile, a third Yotel may open as soon as year-end at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. Kuwait's IFA Hotels and Resorts, which is providing financial backing for the Yotels, "wants to expand very, very fast around the world," Woodroffe says. Clearly, the pace of change is picking up speed in the once-sleepy hospitality industry. These days, if you snooze, you lose customers...
...Vehicles, says Lozano, are required to immediately reduce speed at 100 meters from the checkpoint. On that night, however, when the driver reached the 80-meter mark and maintained the same speed, Lozano says he knew the driver wasn't going to stop. "It actually looked like he was speeding up a little. We all thought the same thing. We were all on the same page as to what had to be done," says Lozano. "Everyone knows, including the Iraqis, that when they see that spotlight, they stop, especially on Route Irish. They slam on the brakes immediately...