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July 2007: Troy Edwin Johnson is killed when a Camry accelerating out of control hits his car at approximately 120 m.p.h. The driver had been unable to slow the car for 23 miles leading up to the crash. Toyota eventually settles out of court with Johnson's family for an undisclosed amount. (See the most important cars of all time...
...driver and I left a press conference at the Iraq Oil Ministry and headed back to the Hamra Hotel compound, where I live and work, we saw a dusty cloud rising to our right. "Perhaps a mortar into the Green Zone," he suggested. We had almost arrived when the second bomb exploded. The gunshots started soon after. My driver slammed the car into reverse and wove around cars, people and concrete barriers, right up to the hotel entrance. We ran inside, joining a handful of people sheltering from the gunfire. The last bomb brought down much of the ceiling...
Video was a big driver for Brown. His YouTube views hit more than half a million in the weeks leading up to the vote, compared with Coakley's 51,000 views. And his social-media presence generated 10 times more Facebook fan-page interactions than Coakley's, according to a study released by the Emerging Media Research Council. As a result, Brown's name recognition zoomed in the closing days of the race, to 95% in a Jan. 14 survey from 51% in a Nov. 12 survey by Suffolk University...
...Nashville, Tennessee, I asked the Sudanese taxi driver while passing the football stadium how the Titans did that season. He said: “You know, you ask me hard question—it is because I only moved here last year.” Where was he before? Seattle, he said, fishing. Three month journeys, 25 thousand a trip. “But I’m from Sudan. Do you know where that is?” he asked...
...hardly a paragon of change, is Yulia Tymoshenko, 49, a former gas tycoon and a pivotal figure in the orange revolution. The main message of both campaigns: vote to prevent the other candidate coming to power. "We should line them all up against a wall," grumbles Andriy, a taxi driver in the eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk, who declined to give his last name. "They promise everything, but give us nothing." (See the top 10 contested elections...