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...dark room off a dirt lot, a child leafs through the laminated pages of a picture album. There's jade green grass and a white paneled house and a little blond girl smiling. There's a big minivan and a bigger play set. There's a countertop completely covered with food. "This is a very nice place," Emmanuel Williams, 10, says in a quiet voice. "I would like to go to this place." From the point of view of an orphan in Liberia, suburban America looks like paradise. But for Emmanuel, it is a paradise beyond reach...
...past four years have spent time in Minnesota, Oklahoma and North Carolina covering teams’ playoff games, just to get that dateline. Harvard sports teams have the benefit (luxury?) of traveling in chauffeured buses. We’ve often tried to fit 10 people in a rented minivan...
...several types of vehicles on one assembly line, which can cut investment 25% for a new model and allow for efficiently altering the model mix based on changes in demand. At Toyota's operation in Princeton, Ind., a single line cranks out the full-size Sequoia SUV and Sienna minivan. What's novel: the Sequoia is built on a frame, while the Sienna, as a "unibody" vehicle, isn't. Toyota's line is the first in North America to assemble such fundamentally different vehicles. By 2005, five of Toyota's nine U.S. lines will produce multiple models, accounting...
This road, I've been told, leads to paradise. Everyone says my journey to the pristine village of Yubeng in the northwest corner of China's Yunnan province will take my breath away. I'm breathless alright. But for all the wrong reasons. My minivan is careening along a tiny ledge of compressed rubble, gouged out of a steeply pitched ravine, a few hundred meters above a tributary of the Mekong. I'm convinced I'm seconds away from becoming part of one of the small avalanches the van is leaving in its wake...
...Marines are video-game twitchy. They shoot up a minivan with a woman and child, fearing it is full of explosives. For an hour or so, the stress of the morning threatens to unleash lethal chaos. It isn't until American sniper teams set up on rooftops that order is restored. "These guys are more on the edge because they're sitting out in the open with vehicles coming at them," says Staff Sergeant Dino Moreno, a sniper. "We can fire into the grille or the tire. We're trying to prevent as many civilians from getting killed as possible...