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...Forestry Department offers tours by four-wheel-drive vehicles, but they are usually noisy, and the smell of diesel exhaust obliterates the rich scents of the flora. Thankfully, the drivers stall their engines at intervals. As the sounds of the forest fill in the silence, visitors may detect bison or deer in distant clearings or hear elephants trumpeting from afar. For a more organic transportation option, try a guided tour on the back of an elephant?the maharajas hunted in this style. You can also reserve an evening in a crude wooden watchtower called a machaan, where you can stealthily...
...engine, transmission and gas tank found in today's internal-combustion cars. In their place is a skateboard-like platform--just 6 in. thick--that houses the fuel cells, the hydrogen tank and all the electronics that are needed to power the car. Electric motors placed inside each wheel get the car rolling. Because the steering controls are all electronic--a concept known as "drive by wire"--gone, too, is the mechanical steering column. Instead, drivers rotate a small handgrip to accelerate and squeeze it to brake. "The basic premise is providing consumers with a design they can get passionate...
...deal A metallic version of the low-riding '70s Big Wheel tricycle, it still has those plastic back wheels for better skidding on concrete and asphalt...
...shows represent the transformation of dating into sport," says Aisha Tyler, host of The 5th Wheel. On EX-treme Dating, two ex-lovers of one dater spy on the rendezvous and comment to their ex's date through an earpiece, like evil Cyranos; if they "win"--sabotage the date--they get a prize. (So far, they usually do.) On Rendez-View, a panel of "relationship experts" offers play-by-play, SportsCenter style...
...Other shows pay as little as $100 for a day's "work." But they offer a hit of today's drug of choice, exposure. "We try to weed out the wannabe actors and actresses," says David Garfinkle, co-creator of Blind Date, Rendez-View and The 5th Wheel. "No one has ever come on our show and become famous...