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...that many of the creations you chose were impractical, half-baked ideas. Consider the Snow Boat, which is supposed to solve the problem of a snowmobile falling through broken ice by welding an aluminum boat around it. That's like making a safer motorcycle by carrying it in a U-Haul trailer. Admittedly, coolness is hard to define, but I never thought ridiculousness was an essential part of the concept. Dexter Ford Manhattan Beach, California...
...Like Queen Mary, King George has the distaste-rather than dislike-which so-many Englishmen honestly feel for so many U. S. citizens, and directly after the U. S. entered the War on England's side, George V still thought of "Americans" as persons too mercenary or "too proud" to fight. "I've a good story on you," said His Majesty at this time to U. S. Ambassador Walter Hines Page, and last week Englishmen still thought it good enough to be retold in the Jubilee Number of their Illustrated London News. "You Americans," continued the King...
...creations you chose were impractical, half-baked ideas. Consider the Snow Boat, which, by means of an aluminum boat welded around a snowmobile, is supposed to solve the problem of the vehicle's falling through the ice. That's like making a safer motorcycle by carrying it in a U-Haul. Coolness is hard to define, but ridiculousness isn't part of the concept...
...past eight months a series of curious incidents have shaken the newly named Kingdom of Mekamui, and at their heart is the conman Musingku, thought to be the power behind the jungle throne. Bougainville-born, he fled P.N.G. in 2002 after the collapse of u-vistract, a pyramid scheme that swallowed millions of kina of P.N.G. residents' savings. Musingku surfaced later that year in Solomon Islands, involved in a scheme to bail the islands out of bankruptcy, but when his role became public he fled again - this time into Ona's no-go zone...
...ending Tiger Woods' five-year grip on the award; in New York City. Singh, who also took the Arnold Palmer Award for winning the most prize money (more than $10 million), racked up nine PGA victories and 18 top-10 finishes for the year. He is the first non-U.S. golfer to be named Player of the Year since Australia's Greg Norman...