Posts Tagged ‘Nov-2009’

Could roads be fatality-free within a generation? Peter Evans, Toyota’s corporate manager of product planning predicted that evolving technology could improve road safety that much. Soon cars will keep to the speed limit, stay a safe distance from other traffic, not stray out of their lane and get warnings that help them avoid hitting pedestrians. Trucking has a similar array of safety features available now. Motorists could use the help. A driver traveling one block in a busy downt…

For the first time in four years, a new city has claimed the title as the worst in the U.S. for road rage. New York has unseated Miami as the least courteous city, as indicated by the fourth annual In the Driver’s Seat Road Rage Survey. The survey found the most courteous city — the one with the least road rage — to be Portland, Ore., which moved up from the number two spot in last year’s survey. Pittsburgh, Pa., was ranked number one in the 2008 study. Commissioned by a …

They roar and screech, hiss and squeal, and — spewing steam and belching smoke — onward they charge. Like jousting knights (Sir Crash-a-lot) they spur their metallic mounts head-on into their foes with a mighty crash and clatter. “There’s never been an adrenaline rush like it,” declares Carl Porter, 24, who was the last man standing in a 20-car pack of Demolition Derby crazies following a typical Saturday night crash-fest at Nashville’s Fairgrounds Speedway.Ac…

Kate Marden’s life changed when she was 9 years old. That’s when a falconer, one who breeds, trains or hunts with birds of prey, visited her elementary school and flew his red-tailed hawk around the multipurpose room. “I was hooked,” says Marden, who later read voraciously about falconry and birds of prey. As an adult, Marden volunteered in a falconry show at a Renaissance fair where she met the master falconer who later sponsored her apprenticeship. For Jim Tigan, it w…

At the start of this story of love and hate in Hollywood, actress Georgie York is being stalked by a pack of paparazzi desperate to catch her crying over her high-profile divorce. But just when she thinks things can’t get worse, America’s sweetheart finds herself entangled with wolfish bad boy Bram Shepard, in a mostly-for-show marriage designed to boost both their careers. Much has changed sinc…