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...working with bike designer and aerospace engineer Dan Hanebrink, Stoup came up with an alternative to skis: a bike that he could ride in Antarctica. The ice bike has no plastic parts (which would freeze and shatter in the extreme conditions), and the superfat, low-pressure tires provide traction in situations that would make a mountain bike weep. After a successful trial earlier this year, Stoup says he is ready to pedal to the Pole. INVENTORS Doug Stoup and Dan Hanebrink AVAILABILITY Now, $3,500 TO LEARN MORE iceaxe.tv/icebike.shtml
...trying to repeat its KFC and Pizza Hut success with Mexican fare. Little of the Taco Bell formula has been imported from the U.S. The Shanghai outlet, which opened last May, is called Taco Bell Grande. It's a fancier, sit-down restaurant, a concept that is gaining traction in China with the popularity of T.G.I. Friday's, the Hard Rock Cafe and Tony Roma's. Not surprisingly, much of the food at Taco Bell Grande is only vaguely authentic. Caesar salad is on the menu, and there are no hard-shell tacos (research found mainlanders don't like them...
...summer of union discontent over pension and unemployment reforms. Only in Germany is the opposition enjoying any success, but even there the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian ally, the Christian Social Union (CSU), are seen as the lesser of evils. Why can't opposition parties get any traction? Call it the revenge of the Third Way. Back in the late 1990s, leaders like Blair and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder sold a pragmatic blend of fiscal realism and social justice, dubbed the Third Way. Outdated ideological divisions between right and left were dead, they declared...
Although Sen. John Edwards’ presidential bid has failed to gain traction among New Hampshire primary voters thus far, the North Carolina Democrat’s slated Oct. 13 appearance at Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP) is generating quite a buzz on campus...
...Beijing talks were a chance to rally support for tightening an international noose around a nuclear rogue. For North Korea, the objective was to break up any such nascent coalition. Guess who went home with traction...