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Meanwhile, virtually every major automaker is spending heavily to make the dream come true. Chrysler has the 1.3-mile-long test bed I'm bouncing along in Chelsea, Michigan. General Motors is outfitting a convoy of 10 Buick LeSabres that are scheduled to make a test run next year on a modified stretch of I-15 outside San Diego. Five leading Japanese automakers, meanwhile, are members of a government-led consortium that turned a four-mile stretch of new expressway near the site of the 1998 Winter Olympics into a smartway proving ground...
Though opponent Jim Ryun would beat him at the mile, Frieden might win a marathon--he has completed five. What he really wants to win, though, is this race for the seat being vacated by Sam Brownback. A self-described moderate, Friedan describes the proposed G.O.P. attempt to slow Medicare growth as "crippling." He has traveled throughout eastern Kansas, meeting with citizens at "Table Talks" to listen to their concerns. Frieden gives the Democrats a chance to break the G.O.P.'s two-year monopoly on Kansas seats in the U.S. House...
...former world-record holder in the mile and a three-time Olympian, Ryun is a fundamentalist Christian conservative who stresses the importance of family, finances and the future, saying he wants to return to the principles of the Founding Fathers. He has done some grass-roots campaigning with his wife and children, but he has to keep it up to win this seat, which was Democratic for 20 out of 24 years before Sam Brownback took it in the 1994 election. For Ryun, the athlete and politician, this race could come down to a sprint in the home stretch...
BORN: Sept. 24, 1943, Detroit EDUCATION: Michigan State U, Oakland, B.A., 1967 FAMILY: Divorced; five children RELIGION: Christian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Radio-talk-show host; author; teacher POLITICAL CAREER: Sought G.O.P. nomination for U.S. Senate, 1994 ADDRESS: 21711 West Ten Mile Road, No. 202, Southfield...
...eight houses and burst into flames. As live TV coverage showed a row of bodies covered with black plastic on the sidewalk and firemen sprayed smoking bits of the airplane with hoses, the search for casualties amid the rubble on the ground continued. The crash occurred about one mile from the runway. Patricia Almeida of Globo reported "perfect" weather at takeoff and had no information as yet about the cause of the crash...