Word: drivered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unsuspecting taxi driver was both the vehicle and a victim of a suicide bombing in Northern Iraq, today - an attack that served as a reminder that there are no rules in the campaign by the Qaeda-linked Ansar al-Islam against the local Kurdish authorities. The fight for control of a tiny sliver of northern Iraq pitches fighters loyal to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which rules the eastern part of the territory liberated from Saddam Hussein in 1991, against Ansar, a small cadre of homegrown Islamic militants supported, trained and reinforced by Osama bin Laden's organization. And today...
Maybe a government permit of the type that qualifies certain people to buy explosives and carry pistols under their coats should be required for the driver of an SUV. Do you travel on dirt? Do you haul a livestock trailer? It wouldn't remove the stigma, though. As long as some people are living larger than average, they will be targets for grumpy puritans and prohibitionists who, if they ever manage to get their way over SUVs, will refocus their wrath on "professional style" kitchen ranges or riding mowers above a certain horsepower...
...metal surrounding you in an SUV might help protect you in certain accidents, such as broadside collisions with a car. That's one reason SUVs generally have lower death rates than small cars. But that protection comes at a cost to the half of U.S. drivers who don't have trucks or SUVs. Because they are so much heavier and higher off the ground, SUVs can ride atop cars when they collide, crushing the smaller vehicles. Last week automakers and a safety group met in Washington to address this issue, known as "crash compatibility." It's a daunting problem: nhtsa...
...place where music, from impoverished townships like Soweto and Alexandra, spurred the people on to action - the real fight here "is really black vs. black," says a Zimbabwean M.P. "It's black people against a black leader." "The old man makes his own people panic," says Job, a taxi driver. (Names have been changed in order to protect the speakers.) "The day will come when we say 'Enough is enough.'" We thought we were liberated, but we were not," Mapfumo says, two days after the Mutare show, over a stew-and-rice dinner in the living room of his spacious...
...like a killer. How many of them did? Yet history overflows with examples of average citizens who, motivated by religion, patriotism, tribalism or force, become capable of the most remarkable barbarity. Born in the green hills of Gitarama province, some 120 km south of Rwanda's capital, the former driver had lived in Kigali for only a few years before he says he was compelled to join the Hutu militia by government officials. "We just did what we were told. It was very hard on those who refused, some of them died." Of all the people he killed, Uwize knew...