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...Explorer's platform dates back to the late 1970s, when Ford created a new line of light trucks-code-named Yuma-that came to include the Ranger pickup and the now infamous Bronco II. Both vehicles used a unique "Twin I-Beam" suspension that raised their center of gravity by placing crisscrossing beams atop one another between the front tires...
...bird becomes a radiance, a sort of feathered parhelion, a sundog. Yet at the core of the radiance you make out a dark center, the bird's skeleton and organs - in the way your hand looked to you when you were a child and you shined a flashlight beam through it, and through the translucence of your flesh, saw the dark blur of your bones...
...Invest in ADM!" b) "Beam me up!" c) "Toss me a shiv!" d) "I can't sit down...
...offensive to build another missile defense, it was a surprising new chapter. And when President Bush stepped to the microphone at the National Defense University and declared his unswerving commitment to the costly and controversial project, "Rummy," as old friends call him, stood by proudly. He had reason to beam. After all, Bush was reading from Rumsfeld's script. As head of a 1998 panel weighing the ballistic-missile threat faced by the U.S., Rumsfeld had helped build political pressure for just the kind of shield that Bush was proposing. In the quarter-century since he had put Safeguard...
...Dartmouth junior first baseman Mike Mileusnic doubled into the right-field gap to put a runner in scoring position. Senior third baseman Brian Nickerson followed up with a laser-beam shot over second baseman Faiz Shakir's glove to tie the game at 2-2. Nickerson, who ended up with a double on the play, had proved himself on Saturday to be a clutch performer. With two-outs in the eighth inning, trailing 5-2 in Saturday's second game, Nickerson hit a three-run shot over the fence in left field to tie the ballgame. Coach Walsh knew that...