My trip to Portugal was canceled, and I can't get into the Bulgarian factory for a couple of days -- evidently some government team is crawling all over the site right now -- and as I have a few days to kill, I though I'd spend them with my favorite brother and his mysterious American bit of fluff.”

For millions of men . . . shaving is painful because they develop razor bumps on the face and neck from the closely cut ends of hairs that imbed themselves to irritate and scar the skin.

A bulky form was seen rising aft, and began marching on all fours with the movements of some big cautious beast.

A trick first popularized by Jeremy McGrath, the Superman gave the impression of a rider in full flight, not so much riding his bike as trailing it through the sky. McGrath had done the Superman at the end of races and in exhibitions, and it always killed. But he'd never done a Superman like this. No one had ever done it like this. The goal when executing a Superman was simply to go horizontal, at 180 degrees, while barely touching the bike. But this kid had gone way beyond horizontal. Rather than just kicking his feet out behind him, he'd lifted his legs high in the air, his boots hanging back over his body, two feet above his torso, like a scorpion getting ready to strike.