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...BAG SNAFUS It's well known that auto air bags can kill children under age 13 who are riding in the passenger seat. But the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says about half of parents with pickup trucks, the vehicles that have air-bag cutoff switches, still don't use the switches as intended--to shut off the air bags and thus protect front-seat kids. Citing the "widespread misuse" of the switches, NHTSA recommended automakers develop air bags that can turn off automatically when a child is riding up front...
...repressive apparatus of the state, admitting to the horrors of the past and trying to rectify them would strengthen the legitimacy of Gorbachev and his brand of modernized socialism. It did the opposite. The masses turned against the system and Gorbachev himself, whom they labeled a "boltun," a wind-bag. The Communist Party and the rest of the Soviet ruling class - the Armed Forces, the defense industries, the KGB - could see where events were leading, and were becoming increasingly anxious...
Back in January, you could throw a bag of Air Force One M&M's anywhere on Capitol Hill and feel pretty confident it would hit someone who hated Hillary Clinton. The new junior senator from New York wasn't staying around to find out; still dogged by allegations of impropriety and linked, at least to some, to the scandals of her husband's administration, one of the best-known First Ladies ever spent the first few months of her term ducking the national spotlight...
...ugly duckling at the prom," she says with a laugh. Bush, she believes, "is running against me in '02." It's easy for Bush to have Ted Kennedy to the White House, Tauscher says--his seat isn't ripe for a Republican takeover. "The centrists are a different bag, and Bush has yet to really deal with...
...NATO force in Bosnia, Captain Andrew Coxhead, concedes that ordinary peacekeepers who encounter him during a routine patrol might not be equipped for the job. "You don't want to mess with these guys without sufficient force," he says, remembering an incident in Foca when an attempt to bag a suspect went wrong; the fugitive blew himself up with a hand grenade and injured four German soldiers...