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...Delhi in the early 1970s, my family traveled by scooter in the classic, death-defying Indian fashion. My father would drive, with me, a toddler, standing on the floorboard in front of him and my mother seated pillion, cradling my infant sister in her arms. My father was a civil engineer and my mother a nurse, and in India at that time, cars for a young family were far out of reach...
...replicate it. Work on the Camaro started in earnest in 2006 after GM had launched a major restructuring of its operations around the world. Consequently, Gene Stefanyshyn, the GM executive in charge of the project, moved to Australia to oversee the re-engineering of a rear-wheel-drive chassis that its Holden auto subsidiary had sold in small quantities over the years in both its home market and the Middle East. The Camaro is built on the Holden platform. The car will actually be assembled at GM plant in Oshawa, Ontario, outside of Toronto...
...well beyond the old-fashioned "Detroit iron" of the 1960s and '70s. The new Camaro is powered by either by an old school, 426-hp V8 or an up-to-date direct-injection V6 engine that produces 29 m.p.g. and 304 HP in one package. During TIME's test drive, the Camaro showed that it blends the responsive feel and precise handling found in European road cars with raw American power, easily mastering the twisting, rural two-lane roads across southern Michigan. "It's a good example of what GM can do and what maybe they should have been doing...
...pickup trucks [run by insurgents] they may be chasing," says Gen. Robert Lennox, the U.S. Army's assistant deputy chief of staff for operations. The specifics required by the Army and the Marines are spelled out in the request for bids: blas-resistant, off-road vehicles that drive 65 mph, have 16 inches of ground clearance, accelerate from zero to 30 mph in 12 seconds and weigh no more than 10 tons. Oh yes, the winning bidder also has to be able to produce 500 to 2,000 vehicles within a couple of months...
...anything resembling law, left millions of its people on the edge of starvation and given it a raging piracy problem along its coasts. But both warn that the world should not flood Somalia with help. Von Hippel said experience had shown that international peacekeepers or a U.N.-sponsored drive to create a central government were inappropriate to Somalia. Far more important was building up Somalia's own security services and the creation of a decentralized administration more suited to the country's clan structure. Menkhaus adds that the last thing Sheikh Sharif needs is overt Western backing. "The tape...