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...biggest sporting enterprises in the world - part medieval joust, part moon launch. The pennants bearing each team's coat of arms flap jauntily from trucks that house enough computing power to send a man into orbit. This mix of techno-dazzle and hometown pride helps explain why 40,000 fans turned out at Ricardo Tormo to watch a nonrace with no winner...
...next few years. "Doing an American team makes a lot of sense as the sport moves away from Europe; those are the markets that American companies want to reach," says Peter Windsor, who is trying to get the new USF1 team off the ground. It also helps explain why YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley is pouring money into F1. Still, much of the sport's mystique rests on its guts-and-glory past. "It's a little frustrating to go to all these places with no sense of F1's history," says Martin Brundle...
...parallel stories of Zakir and Zaeef embody the complexities that exist within the Taliban. Their shared religious fervor may explain why - despite NATO's intention to extend its massive assault on Marjah into a sweep through the Taliban heartland in southern Afghanistan - it may take years to militarily defeat the Taliban...
Some writers might explain the obvious similarities between these films and the fictional trailer (such as how A Beautiful Mind and Good Will Hunting inspired the giant math equation), but you're a smart reader and can probably make the connections yourself. So we'll move along to the next phase: proof of the video's popularity...
Around 50 members of the Harvard Mind/Brain/Behavior community gathered in the Harvard-Yenching Library yesterday afternoon to hear biological anthropology professor Richard W. Wrangham explain how the cultural invention of cooking food has contributed to human evolution...