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What's the new way to cool down a hot car? Law-enforcement officers across the U.S. are seeing a rash of so-called car clonings, in which the vehicle identification number (VIN) of an unsuspecting auto is duplicated on a stolen one. Miami police last month busted an $8 million cloning ring as part of an 18-month investigation that has so far expanded into seven other states and Canada and arrested dozens of suspects, including illegal-alien smugglers in Phoenix, Ariz., and drug traffickers in Virginia Beach, Va. Says Florida attorney general Charlie Crist...
...findings, presented to the committee at a meeting on Friday, also showed that few rooms were unlocked in dorms where doors are set to automatically lock themselves—fewer than 10 in Quincy House, for example—prompting the committee to skip walk-throughs on the remaining auto-locking dorms...
...their locks,” said Jane Fang ’08, a CSC student representative. “On the opposite side of that spectrum, one of the towers in Currier probably had about 75 percent of its doors unlocked. If Currier and Winthrop could be changed to auto-locking doors, I think that would be great because it seems to work...
...committee will also perform a walkthrough of Dunster House and the DeWolfe buildings—whose doors, like those in Currier and Winthrop Houses, do not auto-lock-—this week to see if the results differ...
...attractively designed cars, and aggressive cost cutting to ensure they could be sold at both profitable and reasonable prices, the firm has rebounded. Renault earlier this year reported record profits, boosted in part by the runaway success of its Megane car. Last year, it introduced a new low-cost auto, the €5,000 Logan, that is aimed at a completely new audience: middle-class consumers in places like Eastern Europe and Latin America. "Renault still sometimes produces dogs that don't sell, but it's innovative, and people want to buy its cars," says consultant Schmidt...