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Meanwhile, virtually every major automaker is spending heavily to make the dream come true. Chrysler has the 1.3-mile-long test bed I'm bouncing along in Chelsea, Michigan. General Motors is outfitting a convoy of 10 Buick LeSabres that are scheduled to make a test run next year on a modified stretch of I-15 outside San Diego. Five leading Japanese automakers, meanwhile, are members of a government-led consortium that turned a four-mile stretch of new expressway near the site of the 1998 Winter Olympics into a smartway proving ground...
Chrysler, for one, seems to have accepted the technology's limitations. Their smartway prototype--with a wire embedded in each lane to give the cars a reference point--is intended only as a test bed for putting the bodies and chassis of new cars through their paces. Chrysler figures the track can cut the time it takes to simulate the punishment the average car undergoes in 100,000 miles from six weeks to two. For the foreseeable future, however, the company doesn't plan to transfer its technology from the lab to the open road. "This stuff is not ready...
...conservative Boyd says government reform and economic development are the most important issues in his campaign. But, citing his own victimization by an ex-con who burglarized his home, he is a no-nonsense believer in expanding jail bed space and turning the screws on violent offenders...
...investigation to be "a detective job in part," he told TIME. "They are going to have to question people, look for indirect evidence of what happened to the accounts. Everybody's desire is to turn over as many stones as we can so the thing can be put to bed...
...have R.N. after his or her name, leave that hospital immediately!" Kranstover, 41, has been a nurse for 11 years, and was a cardiac nurse at a San Diego hospital the night a technician allowed a patient who had just suffered a heart attack to get out of bed and smoke a cigarette. "All of a sudden the patient's heart monitor showed ventricular fibrillation, a life-threatening condition in which you can die within minutes," says Kranstover. "I rushed in to resuscitate him. He almost didn't make...