• On Rainbow Road, you appear to be racing in LEO somewhere above Greenland.
  
  • When you fall off the course, you see your kart burning up on reentry.
    
  • (Presumably with your character still inside.)
    
  • The effect is gorgeous.
    
  
  
• The Dry Dry Ruins, where you race a circular track around the Egyptian desert and through a decaying tomb.
  
  • With each lap, more of the structure collapses.
    
    • Columns fall across the raceway.
      
    • Rooms fill with sand.
      
    • Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
      
  
  
• The Maple Treeway.
  
  • Just, y'know, driving around in autumn.
    
  • Kicking through piles of leaves.
    
  • Watching them scatter in the wind.
    
  
  

Zabel had been working as a Starbucks barista since he moved here in May and had dreams of becoming a high-school math teacher. He had recently been accepted to the Philadelphia Teaching Fellows program and was to attend graduate school at Drexel University in the fall.

Zabel will never become the teacher he had hoped to be and it's going to hurt those whom he left behind the most.

Early yesterday, he was shot and killed a block from his home on Ellsworth Street near East Passyunk Avenue in South Philadelphia during an attempted robbery, police said.

As of last night, police had made no arrests.

Police said Zabel, described by friends and family as a positive and driven young man, was walking home from a late night of work at the Starbucks at 4th and South streets.

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When he told his stepsister about his new job at Starbucks, "rocking the espresso machine and blending some fraps," as his Facebook page reads under the column job description, she laughed.

"Beau did not like coffee," Newcomb said matter-of-factly. "I thought it was great, I was really proud that he was working at Starbucks."

An Eagle Scout, he grew up in the small city of Austin near the Iowa border, where Hormel makes meat products and the city proudly proclaims itself "Spam Town USA." He graduated in 2007 from Augustana College, a liberal arts school in Rock Island, Ill., where he studied mathematics, Spanish, philosophy and computer science.

"He was a really good student," said Thomas Bengston, chairman of the Augustana math department, who described Zabel as good-natured and easy-going. "Things didn't get him down."

Zabel was attracted to teaching, but he did not have a degree in education. He was drawn to the Philadelphia Teaching Fellows program because he could teach in city public schools while getting his certification through Drexel University.

Dr. Fredric J. Baur was so proud of having designed the container for Pringles potato crisps that he asked his family to bury him in one.

His children honored his request. Part of his remains was buried in a Pringles can - along with a regular urn containing the rest - in his grave at Arlington Memorial Gardens in Springfield Township.

Dr. Baur, a retired organic chemist and food storage technician who specialized in research and development and quality control for Procter & Gamble, died May 4 at Vitas Hospice. The College Hill resident was 89.

A 30-year-old University of Pennsylvania dental student was held captive for 12 long hours beginning late Sunday night by three thieves who ransacked his apartment, stole his credit cards and kicked back to watch TV.

The crooks finally left the man's University City apartment, on Spruce Street near 43rd, about 11:30 a.m. yesterday and went wild, draining the man's ATM account and charging his credit card at seemingly every chance.

The thieves duct-taped the man's eyes and hands in a dark stairwell right before they left, Walker said.

From there, the trio zig-zagged across the city - from The Gallery at 8th and Market, to 69th and Market, then on to Upper Darby and Havertown, then back to 69th and Market - buying sneakers, clothes and gift cards while continually draining the student's ATM accounts, Walker said.