Word: helmeted
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...Despite the danger, however, most Vietnamese have resisted pleas to wear helmets, dubbing them "rice cookers" and complaining that they're too hot, uncomfortable and even that they block the peripheral vision crucial to navigating split-second swerves. And many doubt the government will be able to enforce its new helmet law. "They may put an officer at every intersection, but for every policeman there are thousands of motorcycles," says Nhung, 20, Van's friend. "How can police catch them...
...skepticism is well founded. Five years ago, the government passed a similar helmet law but backed down in the face of popular opposition. In fact, for an authoritarian regime, Vietnam's government has an awful lot of trouble enforcing its most basic traffic laws - motorcyclists regularly ignore red lights and pull into traffic without so much as a glance around. Not only do teenagers talk on mobile phones while driving, they can increasingly be seen sending text messages, eyes darting back and forth between the road ahead and their fast-tapping fingers...
...look was reassuringly ordinary: a smiling, Waspy face under a helmet of graying hair. But what he did onstage was unsettling. His act was in part that of an entertainer at a kid's birthday party--juggling, fashioning balloon animals, wearing a gag arrow through his head--but the whole thing was set within ironic quotation marks. It was stupid-smart: a clever man playing someone with misplaced self-confidence who didn't realize he was a buffoon. This guerrilla comic in a three-piece suit was daring the crowd to get it. And for a long time, there were...
...football team’s history. A little more than ten years later, the former quarterback has developed a product that could impact Crimson football again. Over the last four years, Ferrara and his Boston-based start-up company, Xenith LLC, have designed a new and safer football helmet, which is receiving accolades from physicians around the nation. “It’s thrilling to see a whole new technology,” said Robert C. Cantu, the chief of neurosurgery service and director of sports medicine at Emerson Hospital in Concord, Mass. “The helmet...
...live in New England - the bottle opener plays the radio call of the Red Sox 2004 World Series win. The opener has an electronic chip inside that makes removing a cap almost operatic, the way Sox left fielder Manny Ramirez does when running the bases - throwing off his helmet as if it were filled with angry hornets...