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...high seas in order to choke off the export of drugs and missiles that are estimated to earn Pyongyang up to $1 billion a year. Washington is also pressing Beijing to accept the construction of large, U.S.-funded refugee camps along its border with North Korea, designed to speed the collapse of Pyongyang's regime. But the North Koreans have warned that they could respond by initiating armed conflict. In diplomatic tradition, it's always preferable to have the parties to a conflict talking rather than fighting. In the case of the North Korea crisis, however, the fact that they...
...allowed to run. At 90 m.p.h., I straddled the double yellow lane divider in case I needed the whole road. I kept trying to remember what instructor Dave Golder--who had taken me for a ride at 175 m.p.h. the day before--told me is the key to high-speed driving: "soft hands and no brakes." Or was that no brains...
...three miles to relax and realize this was going to be one of the best days of my life. I was taking part in the Bonneville 100--a timed race over 100 miles of closed state highway that runs inspirationally close to the Bonneville Salt Flats, site of land-speed records...
...field of vision miles out in front (as pilots do), to the hypersensitivity of the car, to movements of the wheel and the wind noise. I hit 120 when my co-pilot, Andy Monheiser, reminded me to slow down, since we were in danger of exceeding our self-imposed speed limit...
...Dodge Charger the 800 miles back home to Seattle, Mike Nordin had exactly the same reaction. "It was thrilling, and though it was my first race, it won't be my last. I'm already thinking about the next one." Me too--and maybe without that self-imposed speed limit...