Word: airbags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...listenings with melodies that grow and bloom with familiarity, there is often no structure to be found in the remaining half-dozen numbers. Songs wander and then wander off, promising much and then dwindling away to nothing. OK Computer does contain some complex, lovely music--the welcoming openness of Airbag; the baroque beauty of Paranoid Android; the steady, solemn build of Let Down. On those songs, this album takes flight, achieves orbit and looks down on all the earthbound bands below that are afraid to take such stylistic chances. But listeners should beware: there's only so much oxygen...
...hours later when the Pathfinder team convened a press conference to unveil the panoramic color images the ship had beamed home. The pictures revealed the Marsscape with a richness and resolution the black-and-white shots couldn't. But it also revealed the problem of the obstructing airbag. It was bad enough luck that one of the mounds of fabric was bunched up in front of a petal; far worse that it was the one petal that was supposed to allow the rover egress. "The great galactic ghoul had to get us somewhere," said Donna Shirley, J.P.L.'s Mars program...
DETROIT: In a surprise about-face, U.S. automakers agreed to equip cars with switches necessary to turn off airbags. The auto industry had opposed the plan as unworkable, arguing that it would be nearly impossible to install switches in cars already on the road. Instead, they wanted dealers to allow mechanics to disconnect the devices, which have been linked to the deaths of 36 children and 20 adults since 1992. Fearing lawsuits if someone crashed in a car with an airbag disabled by mechanics, dealers responded with a hard push for switches, which they said would remove their liability...
...National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) warned Friday that air bags can be lethal to children who aren't wearing seat belts. "This is not a false alarm," reports TIME's William McWhirter. "These airbags pack quite a wallop. Small children who aren't strapped in are very vulnerable to trauma from the impact of both the crash and the airbag. Common sense should tell parents to keep children out of the front seat, anyway." The NHTSA is investigating the car accident deaths of six children - ages four to nine - to see if their injuries were caused by inflating...
...change the look of the Taurus without changing its identity. Designer Doug Gaffka and his team, inspired by the familiar Taurus oval grille, took an elliptical route. Viewed from the side, the new Taurus has an elongated oval shape, as do its headlights, rear window, door handles, control panel, airbag pad and more. It has no chrome trim, no visible seams, a curving, dropped rear deck and a steep, sloping windshield. "We kept trying to make it sleek, sleek and sleeker," says Gaffka. "We wanted to suck the body molding right down over the mechanics as if it were carved...