| Video: Drag Racer Pedregon's Car Explodes
Here's some incredible footage away from sandy beaches of Daytona Beach, Florida that NASCAR is currently calling home.Tony Pedregon, last year's NHRA Funny Car champion, didn't exactly start off his season on the right foot. Racing against former team-owner John Force (who had an incredible crash of his own last season), Pedregon's car suffered a little more than a wardrobe malfunction.Just past half track during the first round of eliminations for the Winternationals, something went terribly wrong in Pedregon's motor and caused the nearly 8,000 horsespower beast to erupt in a ball of fire with Pedregon sitting in the middle of it.Luckily, for a sport that saw the death of a very popular driver just one season ago, Pedregon emerged from the destroyed car with only second-degree burns on his hand and some aches and pains from hitting the wall at nearly 300mph.Force likely avoided more carnage by forgetting to pull his parachute until he was too far down the track because he was so taken back by the flames coming from the lane next to him.Previously on FanHouse:Top 8 Spectacular NASCAR Crashes of 2007 .
The Other Women to Watch
Indra Nooyi wants to prove that PepsiCo can make its portfolio of snacks and beverages healthier and minimize its impact on the environment, all while continuing to deliver the same healthy profit growth it has been known for in recent years. Ms. Nooyi, 52, has devoted considerable time in her first year as chairman and CEO to crafting and preaching a vision that calls for the Purchase, N.Y., company to become a corporate leader on both of those fronts, as well as to foster a workplace environment that offers employees "a career, not just a job," she told a group of business leaders in Miami in September. Her drive to make PepsiCo "known around the world as a good company" has deep roots in her childhood in India, she said. Around the family dinner table in Madras, India, Ms.
Apple's attention shifts to Mac as iPod growth slows
In the last few weeks, its biggest news has been the deals it's made with movie studios for streaming content over iTunes, and its having deflated the bulk of a notebook computer to a razor-thin profile. Didn't Apple used to sell those little song gadgets? A public corporation always puts its best foot forward for its quarterly earnings report, and in that case, Apple Inc. is no different. But when a seasoned performer has become accustomed to always entering the stage with his right foot, as many have trained themselves to do for whatever reason, you take notice when one enters the stage with his left. .
Heathman, witness to Rockne's death in 1931 plane crash, dies at 90
James Easter Heathman, the teenager who raced to a field near his family's central Kansas farm to find the plane crash that killed Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne, has died. He was 90. Heathman died Tuesday at an Emporia, Kan., hospital, where he had been for about a week after contracting pneumonia, said his son, Tom Heathman. .
BUSIEK TACKLES DC’S BIG THREE IN WEEKLY "TRINITY"
Long rumored and highly anticipated, DCU Executive Editor Dan DiDio officially announced DCs third weekly series, Trinity, at the DC Comics retailers meeting this weekend in Dallas, Texas. Starting in June, the 52-issue series features a lead story each week, starring Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman that will be penned by superstar writer Kurt Busiek (Superman, Astro City) with art by an equally-big-named talent, Mark Bagley (Ultimate Spider-Man). To make room for the massive project, Busiek is leaving Superman following #675 to be replaced by popular British scribe James Dale Robinson (The Golden Age and Starman). CBR News spoke with Busiek Saturday morning from his home about Trinity and life with his old Thunderbolts pal, Bags. The mystery project I have been eluding to all this time is Trinity although, its only been recently named Trinity.
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A half hour before the doors opened for day two of the North American Handmade Bicycle Show in Portland, the crowds piled into the Oregon Convention Center's lobby to wait. Each had paid $18 for a day's worth of access to more than 150 of North America's finest small- and ... .
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