Robot Wars
The convention center is packed. The roar of the crowd is deafening. Music blares through the loudspeakers. Painted faces sport high school colors. Sheer adrenaline sets the tone. It’s not a football or basketball game. But it is a harsh, brutal competition and the fans aren’t cheering for people – they’re cheering for robots. It’s…
Read More >Crossing Lines
War-torn and ravaged Sierra Leone, still reeling from 12 years of civil war. Drug-addicted child soldiers. Unimaginable medical needs. Now the poorest nation in the world, it can’t heal its people and rebuild its infrastructure. This is one of several countries – and causes – that Dr. Lori Basey and Sandy Orchard have been called…
Read More >The Demise of Speed Dating
Americans want things fast. Fast food, speedy deliveries and quick stops. For awhile they wanted speed with their dating, too. For a decade speed dating was all the rage with relationship seekers. It caught on quickly—and disappeared just as quickly. Speed dating was the brainchild of California rabbi Yaacov Deyo. He developed it as a…
Read More >Sculpted Prayers
Public art says a lot about a city. It memorializes its history, its people and its values. Tulsa sculptor Rosalind Cook is a public art maven. Her work lives in Vatican City, Russia and countless U.S. cities from coast to coast. Now it lives in Edmond, too. With the installation of Cook’s “Come Unto Me”—a…
Read More >Walking the Line
I scan the road from the northeast lane to the southwest lane. It’s difficult to see. Other than squad car lights, nearly burnt out signs from a run-down liquor store provide the only illumination. “The line” stretches 112 feet. It marks the trajectory of a pedestrian—already en route to the hospital—hit by a sport utility…
Read More >Snowbirds of a Feather
Snow comes wet and it comes dry. You can rip it, shred it and tear it up. It’s all the same to snowboarder 54-year-old Charlie Bingham and his 19-year-old daughter, Lisa. Says Bingham, “I really get pumped when the snow is coming down. I’m into big powder days and big jumps. I like the steep…
Read More >Freewheeling Eric
Zero to 60 in 3.5 seconds. A top speed of 120 miles per hour. State of the art suspension that pre-vents wobble as the speedometer climbs. Sounds like a sweet car for sure. But Eric Hoenshell doesn’t drive cars that go that fast. He rides motorcycles that go even faster. And sometimes he uses both…
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