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Content provided in partnership with Read the full article with a Free Trial of HighBeam Research » 00-00-0000 Is the pile of reading materials in your office turning into a fire hazard? Learning a few basic speed-reading techniques can help. The average reader, reading at a rate of about 252 words per minute, will finish this article in approximately six minutes. Go ahead-- time yourself. Steve Moidel, who reads up to 1,200 words per minute, will finish it in less than 90 seconds. Not only that, he`ll probably comprehend more of it. Moidel was not born with the ability to race through printed material. Speed reading is a skill he has developed and perfected through daily Read the full article with a Free Trial of HighBeam Research »HighBeam Research Members: View the full text of this article » Try HighBeam Research for seven days of free unlimited access to the most powerful research engine on the web. Access superior sources and sophisticated research tools, including the HighBeam Library archive of over 32,000,000 articles from thousands of business and consumer magazines and journals, transcripts of TV & radio news and entertainment broadcasts, maps, images and more! A little reading time needed Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The , Mar 22, 2002 by DAVE KALLMANNAuto Racing A little reading time needed By DAVE KALLMANN of the Journal Sentinel staff Friday, March 22, 2002 Writers always tell their bosses they need more time to write. Truth of the matter is, if my little corners of the office and the living room are to avoid burial by hard-cover, paperback and shipping box, what I really need more time to do is read. Dale Earnhardt Jr.`s "Driver #8" . . . a pair of Daytona histories . . . an updated version of "NASCAR: A Celebration" by Bob Latford, the man who devised the Winston Cup points system . . . and the latest version of "The Unauthorized NASCAR Fan Guide," some 700-plus pages of anecdotes, history and statistics. And that`s just since the beginning of the year. Add these to not-yet-completed offerings from 2001 -- Monte Dutton on Tony Stewart, the definitive Mario Andretti biography from journalist Gordon Kirby and a coffee-table tribute to the late Greg Moore -- plus Dale Earnhardt biographies too numerous to count, and someone`s got a solid month`s worth of non-stop page turning. Better get to it, too, to make way for the upcoming "Men and Speed: A Wild Ride Through NASCAR`s Breakout Season." Newspaperman- author G. Wayne Miller promises his inside look at Roush Racing will have quite a bit on Matt Kenseth, a favorite in these parts. Now, just like the countless pages that emanate from press offices and advertising agencies, some of what`s produced makes more sense, holds more interest and has more value than the rest, whereas some might be better dropped directly into the recycling bin. The Journal Sentinel`s weekly motorsports column won`t get into a turf war with the Sunday books page, nor will it regularly be filled with reviews. (Remember, not enough time.) Nonetheless, the phenomenon -- a flood of racing titles -- seems worthy of mention, and a few deserve recommendation. Earnhardt Jr.`s offering is a pleasant surprise. Suspicion warned that it could be just another, 298-page promotional weapon in the vast Earnhardt arsenal, but the book, co-written by publicist Jade Gurss, offers some true insight into a complex young man. Junior talks of changing from a skinny, heartbroken 12-year-old into someone female fans call a "hottie," of feeling like a coward because he didn`t know how to console Kyle Petty after Adam Petty`s death, of spinning out his father so he "wouldn`t (mess) with me," and of an encounter with a fan with a swastika tattoo, "the scariest moment" of Brickyard 400 weekend. It`s not Hemingway, but it`s an enjoyable read. Ed Hinton`s "Daytona: From the Birth of Speed to the Death of the Man in Black" and Bob Zeller`s "Daytona 500: An Official History," tackle similar subject matter with far different approaches. Hinton, a prize-winning writer who has covered the sport for 25 years, covers with elegant prose nearly 100 years of the pursuit of speed, from the straight-line runs on the beach to the passing of the elder Earnhardt, with whom the author shared a tempestuous, on- again, off-again friendship. Zeller, a former NASCAR beat writer and author of three driver biographies, starts with the move off the beach and the birth of the Daytona 500 and ends at the same point as Hinton. But his is a coffee table volume that retells the story of each 500, illustrated with archival photos, some of them not previously published. Others of these countless books are worth a look, too, no doubt. It`s just a matter of finding the time. On the mend After being knocked unconscious in an accident Sunday and spending a night in the hospital, Winston Cup driver Tony Stewart says he`s a little sore and bruised but otherwise ready to race this weekend at the demanding half-mile Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway. "It`s my favorite place to race at anyway," said Stewart, who compares Bristol to the high-banked tracks, Winchester and Salem, in his home state of Indiana. "If I`m going to go somewhere a little banged up, I`d rather go to my favorite place. To me, that`s comfortable." Head start Within a couple of weeks of adding a race to its 2002 schedule, CART has announced a new venue to start its 2003 schedule. The FedEx Championship Series plans to open on Feb. 23 on the streets of St. Petersburg, Fla., with an event promoted by Dover Downs Entertainment, the company that puts on the successful Long Beach Grand Prix. Dover Downs has been awarded a seven-year sanction agreement with an option for five more years. Flush with knowledge Perhaps the reason rookie Ryan Newman has started so strong in Winston Cup -- second in the points -- is that he pays attention to the lessons taught and advice offered by the veterans. Take, for example, his take on the next track on the circuit: "Some people have said that racing at Bristol is kind of like getting flushed in a toilet. You just keep going around and around, and, eventually, you sink. It`s a fun place to race, but it can sink you at the same time." Back in the pack Speed reading index
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