Word: droving
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When THE_REAL_SHAQ wrote that he was eating at 5 & Diner - a chain of 1950s-themed restaurants throughout the Southwest - Bearden and Neden drove over to the downtown Phoenix location to see if it was really him. They found the 7 ft. 1 in., 320-lb. Phoenix Suns center seated alone in a corner booth, futzing with his cell phone. "He looked just like a random guy at a diner," says Neden. "Except, you know, he was Shaq." (Read 10 Questions with O'Neal...
...which has four doors and seats four adults, doesn't feel like a lightweight on the road. I drove one on an empty test track at Tata Motors' main plant in the western Indian city of Pune and found that, while the interior is spartan, the Nano handles as well as any of the other low-end minicars available in India. The brakes lack feel and there's little storage space, but the car turned heads. Our photographer drove a bright yellow Nano - this one fully equipped with air-conditioning - through the highways, cobbled avenues and side streets of Pune...
...life, Sara Jane Olson was a doting, upper-class soccer mom who drove a Plymouth minivan and was a dynamite gourmet cook. In another, she was a terrorist-and a totem of the age of violent radicalism that erupted during the 1970s. Olson - nee Kathleen Ann Soliah, the infamous Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive - was released Tuesday from a California state prison, seven years after pleading guilty to participating in a deadly bank robbery and planting pipe bombs under police cars...
...online literature can be." Although largely substituted now by social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in the West, the BBS still prevails in China today as a relatively free place to express dissidence, while no such leeway is allowed in the traditional media. The same rigid censorship that drove millions of users to BBS and other online forums likely also ushered many book readers into cyberspace. "All books are required to go through three rounds of government-supervised editing, which could take months, before they can be published on the mainland," says Zhang. "Whereas online novels almost instantly reach...
...repeated his protests until the soldiers loaded their detainee into an armored personnel carrier and drove him to a nearby Iraqi National Police station. The stated mission of the U.S. Military in Iraq is to support and advise the fledgling Iraqi security forces. All detainees, therefore, are supposed to be processed through the Iraqi Army or Police, of which there are several, often competing, varieties, national and local...