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The term “eco-friendly speed-freak” is no longer an oxymoron. A team of British designers and engineers are attempting to break the wind driven land speed record using their creation, The Greenbird. The record attempt will take place on a dry lake...
Benny the Bull won the Grade 2 Smile Sprint Handicap at Calder on Saturday, earning an automatic berth into the Breeders’ Cup Sprint field.He was in seventh place with two furlongs to run, then simply took off and prevailed by two lengths over How’s...
An influential Republican senator suggested Thursday that Congress might want to consider reimposing a national speed limit to save gasoline and, in turn possibly ease fuel prices.Sen. John Warner, R-Va., asked Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman to look into...
Speed has been Manny Pacquiao’s specialty ever since he was a scrawny 106-pound teenage brawler. When he stepped in the ring weighing 135 pounds on Saturday night, even his trainer wondered whether Pacquiao would lose some of his splendid speed with all...
Cathy Campbell did a double-take and tapped the brakes when she spotted what appeared to a pointy-edged box lying in the road just ahead.She had gotten fooled.It was a fake speed bump, a flat piece of blue, white and orange plastic that is designed to...
“Speed Racer” stars Emile Hirsch and Christina Ricci are better known for smaller independent movies than summer blockbusters.Yet they could not pass up the chance to work with Larry and Andy Wachowski on the brothers’ first writing-directing effort...
In a modern equivalent of flashing your headlights to warn other motorists of police speed traps, you can now warn fellow drivers with a cell phone or personal digital assistant about speed traps, red-light cameras and other threats to ticket-free...
No matter what the cameras say, some drivers are refusing to pay dozens of $40 speeding fines. Who? Police officers.In the last eight months of 2007, Montgomery County’s new speed cameras recorded 224 cases in which police vehicles were recorded...
No matter what the cameras say, some drivers are refusing to pay dozens of $40 speeding fines.Who? Police officers.In the last eight months of 2007, Montgomery County’s new speed cameras recorded 224 cases in which police vehicles were recorded...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday her government would not try to introduce a speed limit on freeways, despite a proposal from her coalition’s junior party.Many stretches of Germany’s famed freeways, the autobahn, have no speed limits _...
Members of one of Germany’s governing parties on Saturday backed a proposal to introduce a speed limit on highways, a measure that would revoke a cherished freedom in this rule-bound country and was likely to be met with resistance.A majority of...
The term “eco-friendly speed-freak” is no longer an oxymoron. A team of British designers and engineers are attempting to break the wind driven land speed record using their creation, The Greenbird. The record attempt will take place on a dry lake...
If you are someone who is passionate about water adventure sports, you would love this one. The ‘Surfjet’ is perfect for waterskiing, windsurfing, speedboating and surfing, all in one. So you can use it according to your mood. The standard sized...
The official details and images of the frolic design of the Challenger coupe has been let out. Chicago Auto Show will own a mighty crowd when the car would make its first public appearance.
The retro-penned exterior looks of the Challenger would...
Travel in style. And enroute, join in the noble cause of saving the environment. Yes, I am talking about the LongRanger Electric Bike. The motor-assisted Bike comes with amazing features. To begin with, it runs for as long as 62 miles with a single...
I guess everybody around the fashion world recognizes Ralph Lauren and most of us through the laurels he gained with his well renowned Polo fashion label.
But, one thing we didn’t have any clue about or wouldn’t even have suspected is that the...
Vikram Bhatt’s film Speed which has been in the making for close to two years now, has finally cleared all its speed breakers and is finally ready for its 28th September release.
The flick based on the Hollywood hit ‘Cellular’, ‘Speed’ is a...
Bollywood actress Urmila Matondkar has been restricted to home because of an ankle injury. The incident happened when the actress was trying out some new exercise and accidentally sprained her ankle.
The actress has been forced to stay home and is...
Skinny models are every where - you see them in the papers, on T.V, on the net and they make even the thinnest woman feel ashamed of her body. As a result, more and more young girls are looking at short-cut ways of getting the skinny figures they crave...
In a shocking declaration, researchers have linked methamphetamine use to a disease of the heart muscle called, cardiomyopathy. Researchers carved out this association after studying patients aged 45 and younger discharged from a medical center in...
The world’s biggest chip maker Intel Corp. has taken wrap off its new computer chip that is efficient enough to perform about one trillion calculations a second, or deliver a performance of 1.01 teraflops while consuming energy equivalent to that of a...
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U.S. Sara Sayasane celebrates after winning the gold on the women’s 1.000m Linea final at the World Speed Skating Championship in Gijon, northern Spain, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008.
