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...first the Lexus RX 400h looks like another road-hogging sport-utility vehicle?albeit one that's plusher than typical models. But because it draws power from two electric motors?in addition to a regular gas engine?the 400h is one of the most fuel-efficient SUVs. No wonder U.S. buyers have placed some 12,000 preorders for the car, which hits showrooms this month. TIME took a production model for a test drive to find out what all the buzz is about. ?By Anita Hamilton...
...participate are helping to keep it that way. Co-founder Nicolas Musy, a Swiss business consultant based in China, estimates that the event has raised at least $30,000 since the first race in 1999, and much of it has gone to promoting Khovsgol as an ecotourism site. The sport has also rubbed off on the locals. Mongolia doesn't have a tradition of marathoning - in the Khans' time, if a Mongolian had to run more than a hundred paces, he jumped on a horse. But nowadays, Mongolians regularly enter - and win - the race. As ultramarathons go, the relatively gentle...
...kind of camp can we shove in then?'" Soschin has no problem with specialized camps in theory, but she thinks many kids are being made to focus too early. "I wouldn't send an 8-year-old to baseball camp," she says. "It's too intense. They learn the sport from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., then watch a video after dinner, which is usually about baseball. It's just not camp. Kids that age could go to traditional camps...
Sometimes even the best teams can suffer shocking defeats on home turf. Manchester United discovered that last week when Malcolm Glazer, a U.S. sports magnate, took a majority stake in the publicly traded company that owns the famous English franchise. It was the climax of a protracted battle that has pitted Glazer, who owns U.S. football's Tampa Bay Buccaneers, against Man U's board and thousands of its fans. But Glazer, who already owned almost 29% of the team's stock, persuaded two Irish racing millionaires to sell him their 29% stake for $5.60 per share. Several other...
...says, "parents used to think that their image in society was measured by their house or their car. Now, I think, it's whether their kids get into a selective high school." Recently, Beverly Hills surveyed its 420 pupils and found that less than a quarter played sport outside of school. "I get really concerned about the number of our kids who don't have lives," Sutton says. Adds assistant principal and Year 4 teacher Matt Ackerman: "Where I grew up (not far from Beverly Hills), Saturday was sport day. Here, Saturday is tutoring...