October 5, 2001
Big Wheels on Campus
There was a time when the chariots featured in Ben-Hur might have put to shame the two-wheeled contraption rolled out during halftime at Michigan State University football games. But as of the team's opening contest last month, all that is ancient history. Now the Spartans have a state-of-the-art chariot, complete with disk brakes and pulled, thanks to a $50,000 foundation grant, by two stunning Andalusian horses imported from Spain. Says the charioteer, Brian D. Nielsen, a professor of
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