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Chris Paine's documentary makes an unapologetic case for the car and an unofficial indictment of the forces allied against it: the auto and gasoline industries, an Administration stocked with former executives of oil companies and, not least, the American consumer, who would rather strut in a gas-gorging Hummer than put-put in a modest little...
...Saudis put out no press reports in the days following the gunfight. It took several days before they notified the United States. They never bothered to collect al-Ayeri's personal effects - his cell phone, his address book, the registry of his car, or trace such clues back to an apartment that might be searched...
...confined environment, such as an office building's ventilation system or a subway car, hydrogen cyanide would cause many deaths. The most chilling illustration of what happens in a closed space comes from a 20th century monstrosity. The Nazis used a form of hydrogen cyanide called Zyklon B in the gas chambers of their concentration camps...
...destruction tape - still running, unexpressed, in everyone's head - turned toward calculation. Ten subway cars at rush hour - two hundred people in a car - another thousand trampled in the underground in rush-hour panic as the gas spreads through the station. As many dead as 9/11, with a WMD attack spreading a devastating, airborne fear? (See what would happen to the accused 9/11 plotters...
...Hyundai Motor's car factory in India, set amid palm-studded marshes on the outskirts of Madras, is a gleaming example of what could be the future of India's economy. Built for $1 billion, its high-tech robots and monstrous steel-pressing machines will churn out 300,000 Accent sedans and other vehicles this year, at world-class quality levels. Hyundai has been shifting production of its smallest cars to India to take advantage of low costs, thereby keeping the business profitable. One-third of its cars produced in India are exported to Germany, Peru, South Africa and elsewhere...