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...LATHAM BREAKS TAXI DRIVER'S ARM. "I turned and chased and tackled him from behind, Johnny Raper style, and he hit the deck." "I've grown up in the western suburbs of Sydney." All my life. "Well, every now and then you've got to hold your hands up to defend yourself." Whack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gone in 60 Sound Bites | 1/26/2005 | See Source »

...sets up an ad hoc darkroom in the San Francisco airport. A charter pilot agrees to fly the wet negatives to fog-bound Chicago, where LIFE's photo editor has arrived from New York to pick them up. He selects the photos by using the window of his taxi as a light box and delivers them to the printer in time for the issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dangerous Lark | 12/12/2004 | See Source »

...following embedded road tracers: it follows a preprogrammed route, and a laser sweep pegged to its front end allows it to avoid or stop in front of obstacles. The town of Antibes on the French Riviera and the nearby principality of Monaco are considering buying their own fleets to taxi visitors around their cramped streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look Ma, No Hands | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...travel abroad each year is far less than, say, that of Germans. So it is only those Americans who either visit foreign countries or live in them who have been hammered by the dollar's decline. TIME readers, being sophisticated folk, will know that you never, ever take a taxi from Heathrow Airport into central London. (You jump on the express train instead.) Less savvy travelers now have to shell out the equivalent of $100 for the joys of being stuck in west London's traffic. The New York Times recently reported that Irish immigrants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Agenda: The Meaning of a Dropping Dollar | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...following embedded road tracers: it follows a preprogrammed route, and a laser sweep pegged to its front end allows it to avoid or stop in front of obstacles. The town of Antibes on the French Riviera and the nearby principality of Monaco are considering buying their own fleets to taxi visitors around their cramped streets. The CyberCar was developed by a consortium of 15 European research centers and spearheaded by Michel Parent, program director for research and development at France's INRIA, an automation and robotic research center. As you might imagine, Parent is a car buff who enjoys renovating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look Ma, No Hands | 11/25/2004 | See Source »

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