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Despite its denials, Ford faces growing scrutiny over the design of the Explorer and the role the SUV may have played in the highway disasters. Last month Public Citizen, a consumer watchdog group, accused Ford of knowingly building a rollover-prone Explorer and urged Firestone to expand the recall of its tires. "At its core," says Public Citizen president Joan Claybrook, "the Ford-Firestone tragedy was largely the responsibility of Ford Motor Co." This summer the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is slated to issue a long-awaited report on the cause of the rollovers...
Tupelo, Miss., is five hours by road from the closest seaport. It's two hours from an international airport. And it's nearly an hour's drive from an interstate highway. If you were trying to get to any of those places, you wouldn't start here. Tupelo is isolated in the hilly, northeastern corner of the poorest and least educated state in the union. If you've ever heard of Tupelo, it's probably as the birthplace of Elvis Presley. It seems an unlikely magnet for foreign investment and export employment. But that's exactly what it has become...
...cats and Celtic traditions coexisting amiably with its sophisticated financial life and cutting-edge technology. Next month the island will launch Europe's first third-generation mobile phone network, allowing users to surf the Internet and download video clips while on the move. Yet the Fairy Bridge, on the highway south of Douglas, the capital, didn't get its name for nothing. Here the locals lift a hand ever so slightly and mutter "Hello, little people," to propitiate the fairies underneath. Transparency, lower tax rates and G3 phones may help, but when it comes to preserving their hard-won prosperity...
...Percent rise in highway travel over the same period...
...determined to stanch it with a brutal combination of collective punishment for towns and villages that back GAM, and preemptive terror toward everyone else. The result: wide swathes of Aceh have been brutalized since the beginning of the year. Along a 60-km stretch of the main north-south highway of east Aceh, hamlet after hamlet displays telltale scars: razed shops and markets and blackened, gutted houses. Villages still standing are eerily deserted. The town of Idi Rayeuk, once home to 15,000, was briefly occupied by GAM fighters in early March. Security forces moved in hours later...