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...kids who want to ride and not push, there used to be any number of options, from the traditional kiddy-cart to the sporty Big Wheel. This year, though, the "Shoe-Skate Rider." seems all the rage. Now, this takes a little explaining. Imagine one of those running shoes/roller skates; now imagine it three times lifesize and made entirely out of cheap plastic. Now imagine buying...
...names still strike a nostalgic chord in the hearts of automotive enthusiasts: the MG and Triumph sports cars, the four-wheel drive Land Rover and the sleek Jaguar. But these days BL Ltd. (formerly British Leyland), Britain's one remaining large-scale auto producer, is only a pale shadow of its former self. MG production ceased a year ago, and the last Triumph was built in October. And now, the very existence of BL is in doubt...
...talk of war plays upon the fears of the young. "They feel like passengers in a car racing toward an abyss," says Horst Eberhard Richter, a professor of psychosomatics at the University of Giessen. "They have a desire to grab the wheel...
DIED. Abel Gance, 92, illustrious French film director who devised such techniques as multiple screens, double-printing and wide-angle lenses to create brilliant silent movies, including the 1927 masterpiece Napoléon; in Paris. A prolific film maker, Gance produced such classics as I Accuse and The Wheel. But his success ended with the advent of talkies. Shuttling between unemployment and obscure commercial movies, he complained: "I prostituted myself not to live but to avoid dying." Five decades later, one understanding producer, Francis Coppola, helped English Film Historian Kevin Brownlow present a reassembled copy of Napoleon, shown last January...