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...powerful blast hurled the Land Rover almost 40 feet forward, the ball bearings peppering its metal panels with tiny holes. Inside the vehicle's blackened hulk, flesh and blood covered every surface. The car radio sat on the passenger seat, splattered red. On the steering column a small bulb flashed white, pitifully redundant...
...metal surrounding you in an SUV might help protect you in certain accidents, such as broadside collisions with a car. That's one reason SUVs generally have lower death rates than small cars. But that protection comes at a cost to the half of U.S. drivers who don't have trucks or SUVs. Because they are so much heavier and higher off the ground, SUVs can ride atop cars when they collide, crushing the smaller vehicles. Last week automakers and a safety group met in Washington to address this issue, known as "crash compatibility." It's a daunting problem: nhtsa...
Finally, many SUV drivers accrue a simpler but equally important benefit from their burly automobiles: fun. Presiding over several tons of metal from a heated leather seat is great entertainment. "It's not like I'm living large, but I like when people take notice," says Brent Bormaster, 24, a Dallas executive recruiter who drives a 2002 GMC Yukon...
McArthur River isn't much to look at from above ground--just a cluster of green, corrugated-metal buildings, a company lodge and an airstrip--but the mine is an industrial marvel. The rocks underground average 21% pure uranium, with pockets as concentrated as 80%, far richer than the typical 1% deposits at other mines. The ore at McArthur River is the richest in the world and is far too radioactive to handle conventionally; the miners extract it by remote control, using giant boring machines and scoop trams instead of pickaxes and shovels...
...JESUS.” The signs, with their bright green and purple swirls, looked like a Sunday school arts and crafts project on an acid trip. These were peculiar enough on their own, but then I saw what they were pointing toward. Just ahead there was a white, metal cross rising out of that famously flat Midwest soil, towering over the its parish...