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Little Tikes COZY COUPE outsells every other car model in America...
Florida, like many of America's biggest states, can be frustrating to traverse. Driving between such major cities as Miami and Tampa is a back-numbing haul; flying between them, especially at the exorbitant fares many airlines charge, often seems impractical. And as the peninsula state's population has exploded in recent years - Florida is set to pass New York as the nation's third largest state - its road and air corridors have become more gridlocked and eco-unfriendly. Which is why Floridians voted in 2000 to build a high-speed bullet-train service between Miami, Tampa and Orlando...
...MARPAT (MARine PATtern) uniform, featuring small, square blocks of color dubbed "visual white noise" by one observer. Because its digitized composition better reflects the dappled textures and irregular edges found in nature, it has since been adopted by all branches of the military in one form or another. (Read "America's Last Draftee: 'I'm a Relic...
...camo craze swept the country in the 1980s, with teenagers and hunters alike sporting all sorts of apparel in signature splotches of green, tan and brown. Retail experts credited America's military campaigns in Lebanon and Grenada for the trend. As a manufacturer told TIME in 1984, "I think many people wear military clothes because they feel proud of the U.S." To this day, consumers can find the familiar Woodland motif in oddly conspicuous colors - neon orange, bright red, hot pink - on everything from lingerie to toilet paper. Designers like Christian Dior and Nicole Miller have even created camo couture...
...group's officials disagree. They claim the NCRI has thousands of members in Europe and North America. As evidence, they point to a rally outside Paris on Saturday that drew as many as 90,000 people to protest the situation in Iran. NCRI leaders are also quick to point out that the organization supplied information from inside Iran that was pivotal in documenting Tehran's military nuclear ambitions - a fact acknowledged by Western diplomats. (Read "Joe Klein: What I Saw at the Revolution...