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...basic principle of the new model is to get the driver farther away from points of impact. So engineers have made it wider and and taller, creating what the drivers call a bigger greenhouse. That could be important when the car, say, rolls onto its roof. The driver's seat has been moved 4 in. to the center, which is supposed to achieve two things: it lets NASCAR reinforce the driver's side with energy-absorbing, staggered steel plates and gives the driver more comfort. Over the years, as NASCAR began adding such safety devices as the HANS head...
...police said.The victim, who is not affiliated with the University, told police that the assailant followed her from the Harvard Square T stop in his car at about 2:00 a.m. yesterday, according to a Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) advisory sent to students yesterday. The male driver of the car allegedly pulled over his Honda Accord, displayed a gun, and attempted to get the victim into his car but fled when a security guard at the Kennedy School of Government arrived, according to the advisory. Police determined that the gun was fake after the assailant dropped it, Cambridge Police...
...next afternoon De Taillac directs a driver to the Nawab Ka Choraya neighborhood, jammed with gem shops and throngs of small-time brokers showing their packets in the street. "Did you notice I took off my jewelry?" she says, smiling. "They copy." How to describe the chaos?with monkeys swinging in and out of dilapidated, baroque façades, sugarcane presses spewing smoke, and dozens of men (there are very few women in sight) pursuing De Taillac. "Hallooo, halloo. You buy emeralds. You want Indian rubies?" they cry, tugging at her clothes, and when she stops to look over a handful...
...Questions surrounding the Detainee Treatment Act will also come before the Supreme Court on March 28, when lawyers for Salim Ahmad Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's alleged driver, challenge government attempts to put him on trial before a military commission. "The issue in this court case is critically important because if the government has its way, Guantanamo will be returned to a legal black hole," contends Eric M. Freedman, a professor of constitutional law at Hofstra University and legal consultant to detainees, though not al-Qahtani. "It would be an outrage if evidence being used to hold prisoners was extracted...
...avoid confusing him, she answers “Uh, we’re all female,†which infuriates her friends, among them a closeted transwoman and her “straight†girlfriend, and a transguy who would probably appear female to the shuttle driver. “We wanted to cover a lot of areas, because trans issues are not all about violence, but about love and friendship and privacy and a bunch of other things,†Walleck writes in an e-mail. Although those sans vaginas traditionally might feel excluded from the show...