Word: wheelings
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...highway is lit by a full moon. Suddenly, as the car crests a hill, there it is, just 50 yards ahead, a terrorist roadblock: two small foreign cars, parked across the pavement. With only a second to react, the driver lunges at the emergency brake to lock the rear wheels, then jams down hard on the brake pedal too. He jerks the steering wheel to the right. The rear of the car twists savagely in a 180° "bootleg" turn...
...Gerbil has run his limit on the exercise wheel of the Boston...
...inspired by the accident, a procedure called radial keratotomy (a cut or slice into the cornea), the surgeon makes 16 or so incisions into the cornea. The cuts, varying in length and depth, extend from the outer edge of the cornea toward the center like spokes of a wheel. The internal eye pressure will stretch the nicked regions, thus flattening the center of the cornea...
...wheel have a combined company experience totaling 71 years. Thus no sudden policy shifts are expected. Short, red-haired and informal, Smith is a contrast to the tall, austere Murphy. Both men, though, are off the same GM management assembly line. Like Murphy, Smith moved steadily up through the company's financial ranks, traditionally the test track for future chairmen. He became an executive vice president and began running GM's financial operations...
...these perils are apparent to any shore-bound summer tourist. On Massachusetts' Cape Cod, four-wheel-drive vehicles have deeply rutted broad stretches of beach. On New York's Long Island and the New Jersey shore, vacation cottages overcrowd once pristine dunescapes. From those states southward, the Atlantic shore, with scattered exceptions, seems destined to become a stretch of boardwalk and pizza-parlor tackiness...