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...hint the thing could haul a yak carcass across Tibetan grasslands; though it's one of the smaller SUVs, it can tow up to 3,500 lbs. But Dickie uses it to drive, by herself, three miles each way to and from the office. She also occasionally lugs scuba gear in it, but mostly she likes its style. Which makes her much like millions of other Americans who have bought the big vehicles--drivers now surprised to find themselves labeled tools of terrorists in the brawl over SUVs...
...wide-angle crowd shots to a close-up of a life-size Elmo holding a sign mocking President George Bush. One memorable photo shows a simple “No War in Iraq” placard in front of Grand Central Station. Others show a police officer in riot gear blocking crowds and riding on horseback...
...impatience extended into the laboratory. Safety standards were lower in those days, and, in her eagerness to get results, Franklin often didn't bother with protective gear, even when working with radiation. Bold as she was in her work, however, Franklin was curiously standoffish with regard to the opposite sex. According to her biographer, Brenda Maddox, Franklin was still ignorant of the facts of life as late as her third year in college--this from a student of biochemistry...
...Navy has plenty of high-tech gear poised to defend its fleet of carriers, cruisers and destroyers deployed in the Persian Gulf for possible war with Iraq. But the service has also quietly dispatched a low-tech team of military helpers: California sea lions...
...foot on the base of an 8000er (that's an 8,000-m-tall mountain for the uninitiated), swing by this site for facts, figures and what it takes to tame the world's tallest summits. And while you're at it, pick up a cheap deal on trekking gear for your trip...