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Chevy Volt's 230 m.p.g. sounds good, but what about 60 m.p.k. or 25 kWh/100m? The array of advanced car technologies hitting the consumer marketplace has brought enough boasts, confusion and questions to fill a gas-guzzling SUV's cargo hold...
...singer who had worked with him, Colleen Summers. Paul and Summers were lovers from 1946, though they didn't marry until the end of 1949, back in Milwaukee. (Paul got his blood test from the father of Steve Miller, the blues-guitar man.) Summers was with Paul when their car crashed and he broke his back, both collarbones, six ribs and his nose. His right arm and elbow were crushed. Doctors suggested it be amputated, but he said no, so they took part of his leg and grafted it onto the pulpy bone. Fearing that his arm wouldn't regain...
...improvement on the economic contraction of 3.1% that Germany suffered in the first quarter of 2009 - its fourth straight negative quarter. France's identical 0.3% advance contrasts its 2008 first-quarter shrinkage of 1.3%. Both economies benefited from better than expected consumer spending and higher exports led primarily by car sales - and in France's case, airplanes as well. (See pictures of Paris expanding...
...decisions and have paid with their lives. There are rumors of people bribing soldiers to get them across the border and though the risks of crossing illegally are high, people still try. On July 31, a Georgian man was killed and his family members wounded when he drove their car over a mine while trying to bypass a checkpoint to get from Georgia into the South Ossetian-controlled village of Akhalgori. (See pictures of the Russians in Ossetia...
...July 26, Diane Schuler, a 36-year-old mother of two, plowed her minivan into oncoming traffic after driving the wrong way on New York's Taconic State Parkway for almost two miles, killing herself, her 2-year-old daughter, three young nieces and three men in another car. Her 5-year-old son survived. Police said last week that shortly before the crash, which occurred on a Sunday afternoon as Schuler was driving the kids back from a weekend of camping, she had smoked pot and imbibed more than 10 drinks' worth of vodka. Her blood-alcohol level...