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...tremendous savings in fossil fuels and breathable air. The bike rider also knows that riding one as the day begins is a brief pure aubade of exertion and contemplation. Why else would cyclists risk it? Then, too, subconsciously, the bicyclist may be engaged in a long-term Darwinian wager: In 100 years, which mechanism will still be at work - the bicycle or the automobile...
...high pitch. If the police are unable to control the terrorists, the outcry for law-and-order will doubtlessly escalate. In that event, the authorities must take care not to be more authoritarian than the fascist fringe. "Can we keep cool?" Rémond asks. "That is the wager." -By Stephen Smith. Reported by Sandra Burton and Alessandra Stanley/Paris
...Sasakawa, 81, famous in Japan as a philanthropist and longtime prewar supporter of conservative causes, an accused war criminal who spent three years in jail after World War II, and a multimillionaire whose fortune was made by, among other things, staging hydroplane races on which eager Japanese bettors could wager. Sasakawa disclosed that he had sponsored the salvage ship Teno and its team of divers at a cost of $13.6 million. The ingots and whatever else was found were his, said Sasakawa, who estimated that treasure worth no less than $36 billion was aboard the Admiral Nakhimov...
...realized that planets were the most likely places for extraterrestrial life to be found in his lifetime. He also anticipated that the U.S. would soon embark on an ambitious program of planetary exploration. At a party just before Sputnik I spurred American space activity, Sagan made a perspicacious wager: he bet a case of chocolate bars that the U.S. would reach the moon by 1970. He won with five months to spare...
Turner has earned that label by betting $100 million that there is a demand for television news 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The vehicle for his wager is Cable News Network, due to begin broadcasting this week. To mark the inaugural, President Carter agreed to an interview with Daniel Schorr, CNN'S chief Washington correspondent, and George Watson, the Washington managing editor. A number of large communications companies have considered cable TV news operations but rejected the idea as too costly for now. Says Turner: "It's a risky business. No one else wanted...