Word: louisiana
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...yesterday as a House committee began hearings into the tangled relationship between the Ford Motor Co. and Bridgestone/Firestone. Firestone CEO John Lampe and Ford head Jaques Nasser presented widely differing explanations for safety problems with the Ford Explorer equipped with Firestone's Wilderness AT tires, and the committee chair, Louisiana Rep. Billy Tauzin, muddied things further by suggesting that seven of the tire models Ford is using as replacements might have higher failure rates than the Firestone tires. TIME's John Greenwald has been covering the Ford/Firestone inquiry and he spoke with TIME.com about how the hearings are likely...
...past decade, all 50 states have passed so-called Megan's laws, requiring sex offenders to alert the community to their presence. Twenty-eight states run Internet sites listing such criminals. In the mid-1990s, judges in Texas, Louisiana, Florida and Oregon began ordering individual sex offenders to post signs outside their homes. But Banales--who also mandated bumper stickers and even temporary placards for traveling in someone else's car--drew national attention by applying his ruling to so many at one time. His move sparked a debate on the rights of these offenders and the merits of public...
...When he married his wife, Barbara Witriol, in 1965, he says he settled down. Fifteen years after graduating from the College, he returned to higher education. The couple moved to Iowa City, where Hollister pursued advanced study in classical music. He has since taught at schools in Louisiana and New York, and is currently at Long Island University...
...Coin dealers in Louisiana have gotten their senator, John Breaux, to propose an amendment they're itching to get passed: allowing investments in rare coins that are traded by brokers to be put in individual retirement accounts. The coin market has gone into orbit the last 20 years with some rare currencies commanding million-dollar price tags. Numismatists have a powerful lobby on Capitol Hill, and coin dealers have been fighting hard to repeal a 1981 law barring rare coins from being included in IRAs. No, you couldn't turn that penny jar you've got stored in the closet...
...prompted Firestone to recall its 15-in. SUV tires last year. Ford faces hundreds of lawsuits that seek damages totaling more than $590 million, and the company is bracing for a report on the tire failures from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Moreover, Representative Billy Tauzin, a Louisiana Republican, plans to hold hearings this summer on the way "this whole mess started and why we didn't hear about it until people started dying...