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...Dearborn, Mich., he said, "I wouldn't buy my kid a two-star rollover vehicle if it was the last one on earth." According to NHTSA's website, 22 SUVs in the current model year have a rollover-resistance rating of two stars out of five, including the Jeep Grand Cherokee and the Cadillac Escalade EXT. (Chevrolet Blazer two-wheel-drive models get just one star.) "People, when they choose to buy a vehicle, they might go sit in it and say, 'Gee, I feel safe,'" Runge continued. "But gut instinct ... isn't very good for buying a safe automobile...
...SUVs count as trucks because of their weight and off-road capability.) Everyone agrees that when the fuel-efficiency law was passed, Congress had no intention of exempting a huge class of passenger vehicles from regulation; SUVs didn't really exist back then. There were only the precursors--the Jeep, the Chevy Suburban--and they were considered work vehicles and novelties. In the 1970s American Motors Corp. sought to have Jeeps classified as light trucks to avoid cars' emission stan* Adards, which would have required design changes. AMC rightly pointed out that the Jeep was built on a truck chassis...
...more adrenaline-fueled encounters with the mountains, try Sunrise Paragliding's excursions out of Pokhara. The six-year-old British-Nepali partnership (see nepal-paragliding.com) offers a range of aerial experiences. Trek or jeep to a mountaintop and then paraglide down with an instructor. The three-day paratrek has you landing in a different village each night. In one of its most popular activities, parahawking, you follow hawks trained to find elusive mountain updrafts for rides that can last for several hours...
...sings tunes written when Israel was a brand-new state by people who, if they are still alive, are probably in bed with their teeth on the nightstand by the time Lahav takes the stage. At 2 a.m., Lahav wraps up a romantic song about making love in a jeep and leads the whole club in a chorus of another old Israeli favorite that goes: "I'm a soldier. Don't cry for me, Baby." For the past decade, Israelis felt they were leaving behind the pioneering days of Zionism, the movement that campaigned to found the Jewish state...
Heilman was called back to the reserves in January 2002. He spent his reading period guarding the Israeli-Palestinian border, a narrow dirt path. He patrolled the area in a Jeep, searching for bombs and for people crossing the border. Most were seeking jobs, he says, though some were armed and looking to kill Israelis. In his pack—alongside his gas mask, bullets, grenades, helmet and cigarettes—Heilman stashed his “Surrealism” and Math 21a textbook...