Word: tiring
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Accidents are of course entropy, as is the slow wear of tire treads or the blur of alcoholic vision that suddenly turns all your raging horsepower and tons of steel from an asset into a trap. Too much entropy can deliver you back into Newton's dread realm after all. It was a big, black American sedan that skidded up the mountain road where I live on Memorial Day night, climbed a guy wire and broke the telephone pole. The way the car came to rest -- lights blazing, leaning against the opposite side of the pole from where...
...Angeles' Coldwater Canyon, living in Benedict Canyon, finding a snake in her living room, buying real estate and embarrassing a young doctor at lunch. And that's the story of Leland Hayward. There is also a recipe for currant cake, and four pages devoted to changing a tire on I-95. If there's someone who has written eloquently about Katharine Hepburn, it isn't Katharine Hepburn...
Rubber Soul. Detroit's 80-ft. tire began life as a Ferris wheel and was nearly removed in the mid-1980s. But civic pride has preserved Uniroyal's humongous hoop...
...taking notes. Some companies offer an automatic transmission, a motorcycle- style gearshift system built into the handgrips. Several firms are preparing variations on Cannondale's new suspension system. Borrowed from motorcycle design, the technology guarantees aging cyclists a smoother ride. Last year Specialized introduced Air Lock, a self-sealing tire that eliminates fear of flats. Still trying to grow fast enough to stay ahead of the big boys, pioneer Sinyard drives his troops with the company slogan "Innovate or Die!" That's a fitting sentiment in an industry whose forebears included Wilbur and Orville Wright...
...burdens of a boomtown, from lengthening traffic lines on its highways to pollution in its lakes, but the region will not raise taxes to deal with them. (Orange County has lowered its property-tax rate almost annually since 1969.) In the post-Disney real estate explosion, bureaucrats, farmers and tire salesmen have become instant millionaires, but so little money has been spent on the overcrowded regional school system that some classes have been taught in gym storage rooms. About 15,000 people pack the Orlando Arena for every game of the Orlando Magic, the two-year-old National Basketball Association...