Word: dieselization
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When he turned 16, 16 months ago, Frankie Muniz gave himself a birthday present: he bought the VW Jetta that Vin Diesel drove in The Fast and the Furious. But the Muggsy Bogues-size star of Fox's Malcolm in the Middle has bigger toys in mind. He would like to own the Los Angeles Clippers. Somebody should tell Muniz that's a TV actor's ambition. If he thought himself a true movie star--and he should, having headlined last year's hit Big Fat Liar and the current Agent Cody Banks--he would dream bigger: take over...
...post could tell the families of the dead and missing what had gone wrong, what a cook and a computer specialist, a mechanic and an aspiring elementary school teacher were doing in a convoy so close to battle, so unprotected. The 507th's usual job is to keep diesel tankers rolling, fix generators and service Patriot missile batteries. But it was attacked on March 23, at night, somewhere on or near Highway 1, one of the main north-south roads in Iraq...
Bishop Allen has something to hide: they are east coast intellectuals lurking behind electric guitars. Their Diesel jeans, carefully crooked ties and artfully disheveled hair look like the outfit of a typical rock band. Their lyrics mourn lost love and lonely nights. But those lyrics belie a sophistication and tidiness that lurks under their disheveled public image...
...liters of gasoline can be purchased for as little as 50¢ and resold in neighboring countries that produce no oil for as much as $10. Luxury items are smuggled in tax free by middlemen and then resold at a higher price. One big moneymaker for the sons involves trucking diesel fuel into Turkey. The trade has fallen off amid recent preparations for war, but at its high point, according to the Coalition for International Justice, a Washington-based human-rights group, some 45,000 Turkish truckers traveled regularly between the oil fields of northern Iraq and delivery points in eastern...
...much as I loved living in Paris, the Seine's heady cocktail of diesel oil and stagnant water was not enough to make me tie the knot. Eventually I moved on, leaving my boat for other affairs: a dalliance with a house in Berkeley, a fling with a high-rise in Hong Kong. But I still look back on my Parisian home with wistfulness and a hint of self-satisfaction. At any gathering of Iyer's global souls, a houseboat in Paris trumps a penthouse in Manhattan every time...