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Last summer, while teaching my niece, 16, to drive, I got my own turbo-charged lesson about the teen relationship to the road. In my dotage, I had forgotten the driving principles that every teen seems to live by--for instance, that fast is really good, especially when you're going around a corner. A rearview mirror works really well for checking out how nice your sunglasses look, and every maneuver is enhanced if you can casually dangle your left elbow out the window. After spending two months riding shotgun with a teen, I completely understood why my friend Nancy...
...Turbo Tiger...
...Unleash a tiger in your house with the Princess Turbo Tiger!” Yet another infomercial featuring the redoubtable Billy Mays. Billy sings the praises of a little golden vacuum, whose suction power is such that it can pick up bowling balls and 40-pound tables. “The Turbo Tiger, big or small, it’ll do it all.” Cleaning up the popcorn on your common room floor is a cinch with this little tiger—call...
...test. Originally conceived around 1980 (in the course of elementary-particle, not astronomical, research), the theory says the entire visible universe grew from a speck far smaller than a proton to a nugget the size of a grapefruit, almost instantaneously, when the whole thing was .000000000000000000000000000000000001 sec. old. This turbo-expansion was driven by something like dark energy but a whole lot stronger. What we call the universe, in short, came from almost nowhere in next to no time. Says M.I.T.'s Alan Guth, a pioneer of inflation theory: "I call the universe the ultimate free lunch...
...filmmaker, Robert Rodriguez has a kind of dazzling, turbo-charged vitality that is only enhanced by the flippant, let's-see-how-far-over-the-top-we-can-go nature of his work. Eight years after becoming an indelible symbol for the resourceful tactics of guerilla filmmaking with the taut, no-budget wonder El Mariachi, Rodriguez has become an eye-candy dynamo; a gleeful purveyor of pulp so jammed with spicy flavor that it seems ready to rupture on screen at any moment. With the propulsive mayhem of his neo-Spaghetti Western Desperado, Rodriguez established himself as a caffeine-saturated...