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...safe; Waddah didn't bother to lock his car door. He was about to cross a narrow alley when a car screeched up, blocking his way. Two men got out, thrust AK-47s into his ribs and pushed him into the floor behind the front seat. Climbing in the backseat, the men pinned him down with their feet and beat him in the torso with the butts of their guns. When he tried to speak, he got a sharp jab in the ribs. His captors emptied his pockets and took his cheap wristwatch and his belt and shoes...
...licensing, mandates at least 50 hours of parent-supervised driving experience that must be tracked in a written log, and forbids newly licensed drivers to transport other youths for three months. "The more teens in the car, the greater the risk," says Ferguson. Goofy, adolescent yammering in the backseat isn't the only distraction posing a threat. Ferguson says the mere presence of peers can induce kids to take risks they otherwise wouldn't, often because they're trying to impress their passengers...
...leftists, a government that grounds its policies in paranoia may not seem like fantasy. For others, there's fascination in the whodunit that Range weaves with his fictional talking heads from the Bush White House, the Chicago cops and the FBI. But the killer's ID takes a backseat to the infernal cleverness of the enterprise. D.O.A.P. has a surface plausibility as seductive as a good political campaign...
...Corps (ROTC) classes at MIT. Pedaling into Cambridge Commons, they heard loud cries for help from behind and immediately dialed 911, according to the students. They followed the “hysterical” screams and spotted the woman, a 31-year-old black female, propped up in the backseat with her legs apart to facilitate the delivery, Pellegrini said. While Reed spoke with the police dispatcher, Pellegrini approached the woman in the dark and fumbled to switch on the lights inside the car. The students said they witnessed the woman catching the emerging baby in her bare hands. Pelligrini...
...knew I'd never regain what I had lost in penmanship, tennis, home repair, lovemaking, freedom from pain and dexterity. Even putting on a tie remained a challenge, one fraught with danger. Rushing to a TV appearance a few weeks earlier, I tried to knot one in the backseat of a taxi. I gripped the short end with my prosthetic hand, which began to spin uncontrollably, almost strangling me before I managed to extricate myself...