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...number of claims for the bad tires as far back as 1997. And on Wednesday, former workers at Firestone's Decatur, Ill., plant, who were replaced by non-union workers during a 1994-96 strike, gave depositions that their supervisors had put quantity ahead of quality. Many of the suspect tires were made there. Firestone says those testifying are disgruntled employees. Also, attorneys want the recall to be widened to include all 47 million tires produced, which Ford says is irresponsible and not supported by the data...
...Meanwhile, until February of this year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) had received fewer than 50 complaints, compiled over the better part of a decade, about the suspect tires, in addition to tips from State Farm that it was seeing an unusually high number of insurance claims for the models. (This year, according to a State Farm document examined by TIME, the number of cases has been even higher, with 12 appearing in the first four months alone.) In March, though, 30 to 40 more complaints flooded in after a report on tread-separation accidents aired on Houston...
...Actually, despite our traditional obsession with sports, despite the coercive drumming of pre-Olympics hype, some of us don't care that much about the Olympics. We think we matter for other reasons. We suspect we're on the map already, and that only American myopia would see us otherwise...
...thing is that "Really" could have been done well. Gore has committed enough flip-flops in his years of realpolitik to support a good hour of stand-up material. But I suspect that if someone had made a truly light, witty and funny commercial - the ad that this spot claims to be - it wouldn't have been red-meat enough to please the party hacks. Instead, "Really" sounds not just nasty but tone deaf, down to what should have been a classic punch line: "(Gore:) 'I took the initiative in creating the Internet.' Yeah, and I invented the remote control...
...test for EPO--use it anyway. As gold medal marathoner Frank Shorter, now chairman of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, says, knowing a test is looming will knock cheaters off stride. Shorter says that if there is no EPO test at Sydney, then every endurance or strength performance is suspect. He's right. And when sport becomes suspect--when no one believes in it--it's no longer worth watching...