Word: swaps
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...arrival of the new XMODS radio-controlled cars at Radio Shack. The $49.95 racers, replicas of cars popular on the real-life scene, can be customized with authentically reproduced big-league gear, including Bomex body kits and Eibach suspension springs. Under the hood, there's more tweaking: you can swap engines, add lights, and even give your car all-wheel drive. The appeal of XMODS lies somewhere between Lego blocks and car-racing fantasy camp. Not only is some assembly required, but to have real fun, lots of disassembly and reassembly is a must. And while...
...Soviet republic, rugby is now second only to football in popularity, especially since the national team beat arch rivals Russia to qualify for the Rugby World Cup. But most local teams don't have stadiums to play in, the players pay their own way to matches, and "if they swap shirts at the end of a game," says sports journalist Paata Tortadze, "they may find themselves without kit the next week." In places like Georgia, rugby is still largely an amateur sport. But in its traditional bastions of England, France, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa it has, since turning...
...newly occupied territories remained under Israeli military rule. But ultranationalist Israelis saw the occupation as an opportunity to stake a claim on land inhabited by Palestinians that fell on the Biblical maps of the Land of Israel. Mindful of the danger that settlements would preclude a land-for-peace swap, the ruling Labor Party did not encourage settlement, and a decade later only 7,000 Israelis were living in the West Bank...
...unconditional disarmament as a precondition for further talks. Pyongyang won't drop its nuclear deterrent without security guarantees, and the standoff continues, leaving little room for optimism over this week's talks. Diplomats hope that the U.S. and North Korea can at least be persuaded to agree to swap security undertakings for a nuclear freeze for the duration of a negotiation process, on the assumption that a comprehensive agreement could take years. But even such a limited deal could be elusive in the short term...
Once there was lots more going on. In the '30s and '40s, when everyone (not just dateless teen boys) went to films, the sexes were equal onscreen. Men and women used to swap banter, fall in love, solve dilemmas together, share top billing. And women could anchor hits, big ones. Gone With the Wind, depicting a Southern belle's struggles and whims, was Hollywood's top grosser for 26 years--until another women's film, The Sound of Music, matched it. Even the current "all time" champ, Titanic, is at heart a shipboard love story. Yet Hollywood is reluctant...