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Even the big teams see the sense in that. FIA rules allow for up to 12 teams, with each running two cars. But escalating budgets have forced smaller teams to quit in recent years. When U.K.-based Super Aguri pulled out last May, it left just 10 teams on the grid. If more quit, the FIA worries, the sport could cease to be credible. "All teams realize that losing another [team] would do great damage to Formula One overall," says a leading adviser to several teams and manufacturers. Says Christian Horner, team principal at Red Bull Racing, an independent team...
...like me, worship the Fab Four. One can’t help but wonder, though, what could have been if the Beatles had entered the video game scene earlier: exploring Princess Peach’s castle to the tune of “When I’m (Super Mario) Sixty-Four,” hearing “I’m Looking Through You” when the x-ray visor was used in Metroid Prime, watching Dr. Robotnik of “Sonic” fame sing “I am the Eggman...
...avert your eyes. As director of surveys at CBS News, Frankovic is the executive most responsible for declaring the network's projected winner of the presidential election. And if she gets in front of the camera, it probably means that something has gone very, very wrong. Like a Super Bowl referee, she's perfectly anonymous if she does her job right, a name in the news only if she blows the call. "We have a quite lovely studio, right near the anchor's desk," Frankovic says of her crew's setup. "There's even a camera in the room...
...Budweiser basically face a binary choice: Bud or Bud Lite, although they might occasionally find such niche-market products as Bud Select or Bud Extra. By contrast, when a Japanese beer drinker goes to buy a can of Asahi at an average convenience store, he has to choose between Super Dry, Premium, Prime Time, Black, Stout, Orion Draft, Northern Style, Clear, Flavorful, Gubi Draft, New Draft 3 and Ginger Draft, among others. And that's just this month's selection. (See pictures of Japanese design's greatest hits...
...super-person—the superhero who could...