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...company's first completely new model in a half-century, aims to change all that. "This is the first departure from their traditional customer base," says Don Brown, a motorcycle consultant with DJB Associates. And it shows. With its aerodynamic look, clamshell-style instrument panel and unpainted aluminum-and-steel frame, the long, low-slung V-Rod lives up to its billing as Harley's first "performance custom" motorcycle--although a pricey one at around $17,000. (A classic hog goes for $10,000 to $15,000.) It features a 115-hp engine, designed with help from Porsche, that claims...
...having served two years as a gunner on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise in the Pacific, he watched another carrier, the U.S.S. Franklin, turned into an oven by a Japanese bombing attack, smelling the stench of more than 700 men slow-roasted alive between its steel decks. "After that," he wrote, "I became a f___ing coward & was ready to come home immediately, to hell with the war & all that crap about what we are fighting for, etc? Well anyway the Korean War came along & I wanted to see if I was still a coward--I was!" By 1952, when...
...nation's largest brownfield project by far is Bethlehem Steel's $1.5 billion plan to convert its Pennsylvania home into a commercial and cultural site, including the Smithsonian's new National Museum of Industrial History. Denver's old Stapleton Airport, an 8-sq.-mi. brownfield, will be ripped up for homes and shops set amid waterways. In all, the EPA estimates there are 450,000 brownfields--and possibly a million--nationwide...
...Having abandoned mouse-whackers, on Buddhist grounds, and having despaired of the cats as hired assassins, we have resorted to a "Havahart" trap - a small rectangular steel cage, with doors at either end and bait in the middle, that captures the mouse alive. We have caught a mouse on each of the last two nights (baiting with peanut butter, of course). I come into the kitchen and find the little prodigy, eyes bright with terror, scrunched in a corner of the cage, under the flap door. It's possible that part of his unhappiness arises from humiliation at being fooled...
...cause problems once they return to Toronto or Tokyo?where opium is scarce but its more addictive chemical cousin heroin is readily available. Local Lao addicts seldom try to stop?and when they are occasionally picked up by the Vang Viang police, they are usually released from the corrugated-steel jail after a few hours because the cops can't stand listening to their cries. Guidebooks stress that narco-tourists are directly supporting local addicts and contributing to social and cultural problems. But that won't discourage a curious American or Canadian or Japanese...