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...primary function is to link the nation's major cities, apart from Canberra. But it has always attracted intrepid tourists, and, in recent years, its commercial traffic has been supplemented by the four-wheel-drives of "gray nomads." These older Australians, many of them retirees, are gaily squandering the children's inheritance to see the country, their caravans and motor homes tootling contentedly through the emptiness of desert and bush, turning off to see the sights, oblivious to the thunder of 53-m-long road trains...
This one hurt. A sudden, fall-off-the-bike at 40 m.p.h., road rash, legs mangled in the wheel hurt. After Marion Jones, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, aren't we immune to the fact that our beloved athletes might not have achieved immortality on talent alone? Hell, no. Last week came word that Floyd Landis--the fun-loving Mennonite from Pennsylvania, the guy whose Alpine comeback in the Tour de France was dubbed, properly, "The Ride of the Century" (and he did it with a bum hip to boot)--that guy might have cheated...
...those same years, a generation of skaters turned designers began to emerge. As skaters, they knew how to provide features interesting to other skaters at all levels of ability. They designed the parks and then crafted them like potters at a wheel. Tim Payne, 46, is the founder of Team Pain, based in Orlando, Fla. "Everything is placed, formed and troweled by hand," he says...
...people who had bought a ticket to be scared. They rode the Tilt-A-Whirl, browsed tents of prizewinning fruit preserves and lined up for the cute-baby contest, and if there is such a thing as a time machine on earth, it must be powered by the Ferris wheel at the Wirt County Fair in West Virginia. Back from the war, Jessica Lynch asked her mother and father to take her there...
...however, a few design issues that could give consumers pause. For example, the Loremo has no side doors. Passengers enter the car through the front end, which lifts forward. The driver steps into the front seat and pulls down the hood section, which incorporates the dashboard and steering wheel, to close the car. The car's door locks and windows are manually operated, and a navigational computer does not come as a standard feature. These were stripped out to save weight and cost. "What's wrong with manually opening the window?" asks Heilmaier. Well, nothing, perhaps. But history suggests that...