In March it launched the SeaExplorer, a streamlined, wingless glider with a speed of one knot twice as fast as the American competition.

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When the passengers for D301 reached the platform, they encountered a vehicle that looked less like a train than a wingless jet: a tube of aluminum alloy, a quarter of a mile from end to end, containing sixteen carriages, painted in high-gloss white with blue racing stripes.

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It might come as a surprise to non-gamers (me included) that four of the top 10 video games played on tablets are variations of Angry Birds, the addictive warfare between slingshot-propelled, wingless birds that gamers launch at complacent pigs and other critters who are shielded by various obstacles.

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