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Going for gold?

Japan's Mai Sato is lobbying to get the International Olympic Committee to add her favorite athletic discipline to the games ... pole dancing. She claims a rapidly growing number of international federations have transformed what was once the exclusive property of strip clubs into a respectable and highly athletic ‘sport'. It will be an uphill battle - even well-established sports such as squash have failed to make the Olympic cut.


 
Coffee Car
A customized car called the Carpuccino has been built by the design team on the BBC-TV science show "Bang Goes the Theory". It runs on ... coffee grounds. These are heated in a charcoal fire and the resulting hydrogen and carbon monoxide powers the car. The team calculates the Carpuccino will do 3 miles per kilo of ground coffee, the equivalent of about 56 espressos per mile. Clever but not very practical ... the cost of operation works out to somewhere between 25-and-50 times the cost of using gasoline. Bet the fumes from the exhaust would smell delicious.