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...your car tire provides a level of safety and comfort--until it blows. Uniroyal's new NailGuard tires, on the market this month, come with an inner lining made from a sticky rubber compound that automatically reseals the tire after nail punctures up to three-sixteenths of an inch wide. Unlike "run-flat" tires, which cost hundreds of dollars extra, NailGuards cost just $10 more per tire...
...boys said they "began to play with her." He said they yanked down her panties and put them in her mouth. They also began rubbing branches and leaves around her nose and mouth. Police found pieces of leaves stuffed in Ryan's nostrils. Nathaniel testified that a half-inch gash around Ryan's genitals was believed to have been caused by a "small tubular object," later identified as a twig. According to Nathaniel's testimony, the boys admitted stashing Ryan's bicycle in a weeded lot and returning later that night to discover that it had disappeared. It has never...
...gymnasium, with 10 windows, more than 850 toggle switches and roughly 332 cu. ft. of space for each of the seven crew members. If astronauts got the 36 cu. ft. the Mercury pilots got, the shuttle could in theory accommodate a crew of 64. And Glenn must learn every inch of this new territory. "We're teaching him how to live and how to sleep and how to clean up, just basic habitability in space," says Brown. "Now we go to space to work. We don't go just to survive...
...April 1997 a fully detailed plan complete with maps, diagrams and operational data had been drafted and printed in the form of a half-inch-thick booklet with an orange cover; code name: Operation Amber Star. It called for a two-pronged raid involving several hundred soldiers in which helicopter-borne French troops would "neutralize" the 30-man guard around Karadzic, while an elite U.S. commando force would move in and seize the suspect. Depending on the circumstances, those roles could be reversed. But such a hazardous operation could not proceed without head-of-state approval...
...over the sides trying to avoid the fire, only to drown under the weight of their packs; the surf turning red with the blood of the slaughtered; some who make it to the narrow beach huddling immobilized yet pathetically vulnerable behind what little cover they can find. A few inch forward, hoping perhaps that being a moving target is safer than being a stationary...