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...engine, no steering column and no brake pedal. It requires no gasoline, emits no pollution (just a little water vapor) and yet handles like a high-performance Porsche. It might sound like an environmentalist's fantasy, but there it was on display at the Paris Auto Show last September: the Hy-wire, a politically correct, fully functional prototype that General Motors claims could be road ready by 2010. Other car manufacturers--including Toyota, Honda and Ford--are working on post-fossil-fuel automobiles, but only GM has rethought the car from the ground up, adopting an impressive array of advanced...
...course, the Hy-wire is just a prototype, and getting the first production units on the road by 2010 would require the notoriously sluggish auto industry to shift gears a lot faster than usual. For one thing, the roadside infrastructure that fuels and services today's gas guzzlers would have to be redesigned to dispense hydrogen and reprogram faulty control systems. But if the result were a fleet of safe, fuel-efficient, nonpolluting cars and trucks that reduced or eliminated the world's dependence on fossil fuel, it would be worth the effort. --By Anita Hamilton
...Amrozi's attempts to keep his name from the police were all too understandable: once he had been identified as the owner of the van, the skinny 39-year-old must have known his background would target him as a prime suspect. Amrozi was a self-taught auto mechanic and tinkerer who ran a workshop in his backyard; those skills would have been invaluable in assembling and transporting a bomb. He was also known to repair mobile phones; police believe such a handset may have been used to set off the bomb in Bali. He was a former hell-raiser...
...Crimson played the toughest schedule in its region by far. The seven losses are against teams with a combined win percentage of 75 percent. Only three of its opponents thus far—BU, Brown, and Vermont—are below .500. Harvard has wins against Ivy auto-qualifier Princeton and likely Northeast Conference champion Central Connecticut State...
...Sept. 10, Muhammad bought the Caprice at a Trenton, N.J., auto dealer. "He was impatient. He talked back rude," says Fernando Maestre, 20, the salesman who dealt with Muhammad. Even though he didn't ask Muhammad why he was buying a car, Muhammad volunteered three different explanations, Maestre says. First he said he wanted it for his son; then he said it was for himself; and finally he said he wanted to use it as a taxi. "He didn't want us to find out a lot about...