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...adventurous side also brought him to South America for a hiking trip in Patagonia this month. But as he, Owen I. Breck ’01 and Robert A. D. Pike ’01 drove along a gravel mountain road near the town of Puerto Madryn, Argentina on Wednesday morning, their car flipped over, killing Lewis...
...They drove out both Rabbani and his enemies, winning over most of the local warlords who dominate rural Afghanistan. Rabbani's ousted Tajik forces joined with the Shiite Hazari mujahedeen backed by Iran and with Dostum's Uzbek militia to create the Northern Alliance, which has now reclaimed Kabul thanks to the U.S. campaign against the Taliban. And while they're paying lip service to the notion of a "broad-based government," Rabbani is back in Kabul. Despite its internal divisions - Hazari fighters last week marched into Kabul to stake their own claim for a share of the Alliance...
...movie Speed, Sandra Bullock drove a bus with a mind of its own, programmed to explode if it went below 50 m.p.h. Now buses on real-life autopilot are coming to Las Vegas. A camera mounted on the dashboard of the electric-powered Civis reads stripes painted on the road. If a bus strays even slightly from the markings, a motor on the steering wheel nudges the bus back in line. Human drivers, who control the brakes and accelerator, play only a bit part in this action flick...
...deputy betrayed him in May 1997, turning the city over to the Taliban while Dostum fled to Turkey. The local Uzbeks and Hazaras rose in revolt. They took back the city, drove 2,000 of the mostly Pashtun Taliban into the desert in large container trucks and buried them in mass graves. Half died in the containers. Others were shot and thrown in wells, grenades tossed in behind them. Some were buried alive...
...Quincy House both had Hummers [at their tailgates],” said Quincy resident Heather K. Morris ’02. “I don’t know how they drove them down...