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...buyers have the information they need to assume that responsibility? Bradsher documents other surprising SUV safety concerns. For instance, 2003 is the first year that SUVs must meet the same brake regulations as cars; many earlier SUVs that are still on the road have less-sophisticated brakes. What's more, by their nature, SUVs are heavy, which means they are harder to maneuver...
Until 2003, federal regulations provided more lenient brake standards for SUVs, so some came equipped with cheaper drum brakes that had longer stopping distances and could overheat...
...they begin by following the mature adults. But, says Jake Rice, head of the Canadian government's Science Advisory Secretariat, "the severe overfishing of adults meant that there were no adults to learn from. The fish now probably don't know how to migrate." And there is another possible brake on cod recovery - seals, which can eat up to 7 kg of the fish a day. Bowing to international pressure, the Canadian government virtually banned seal culling - which was aimed at reducing numbers and hence their impact on fish stocks - in the 1980s. From under 2 million in the 1970s...
...Freshman year he met in college some boys, mostly members of his own class, who committed upon him and induced him to commit on them ‘Unnatural Acts’ which habit so grew on him that realizing he did not have strength of character enough to brake [sic] away from it concluded suicide the only course open to him,” the anonymous letter read. “The leader of these students guilty of this deplorable practice and the one directly responsible for Cyril Wilcox’s suicide is Roberts, 2C. Roberts?...
...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...