Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...despite their advantages, fuel cells still have yet to find their way under the hood of passenger cars. Industry experts attribute the delay to scarcity of fuel, price and size...
Chemical refineries routinely break down fossil fuels into hydrogen gas and carbon dioxide. But, until recently, there was no way to carry out this reaction in a box small enough to fit under the hood...
...always level with pollsters; they're notorious in fact for giving answers they believe to be socially acceptable at the expense of revealing their true feelings. But teens are less likely to do that than adults. Sociologist Howard Pinderhughes, author of the new book Race in the Hood: Conflict and Violence Among Urban Youth, says, "Teenagers are a mirror of our souls. They speak plainly about things that adults would like to hide. Political correctness isn't an issue to them. You're more likely to get what they think unfiltered...
...bizarre incident in Tucson, Ariz., a group of skinheads built a Nazi bunker on city property (it was bulldozed) and then, a few weeks later, mounted a cow's head on the hood of a 1970 Ford Thunderbird and drove around town shouting white-power slogans. Many of today's race-hate groups, however, are more sophisticated. According to the TIME/CNN survey, 75% of white teens and 55% of black teens say they have access to a computer with Internet capability at home or school. There they may find that hate groups are also plugging in and logging on. Rabbi...
...once escaped from prison by carving a bar of soap into "the most perfect-looking pistol you've ever seen," and he is described by the FBI as a master of disguises. He once proclaimed, in his faintly Continental intonation, "The thing about art theft is the Robin Hood element in it." Not your common thug...