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...however, and Japanese automakers are better positioned to bring it to market than their American competitors. While the U.S. has focused on the conduits, pouring tens of millions into advanced smart-highway systems, Japan has kept its eyes on nearer-term prizes, making its cars intelligent by adding one on-board feature at a time. It's an approach that could add value to the cars--and reap healthy profits for their makers--for decades to come, whether or not the smart highway arrives on schedule...
According to NTSB records, the A350B AStar helicopter has been involved in 63 accidents in the United States, killing 57 on-board passengers. It averages 3.5 accidents per 100,000 hours of flight...
Just one day before on-board supplies were to run out, space shuttle Discovery made a touchdown at Edwards Air Force Base in the California desert. The landing, originally scheduled for yesterday in Florida, was postponed because of bad weather conditions. Discovery added 460,000 miles on its odometer because of the delay...
...misbegotten week for the Clintons, travel arrangements-wise: Air Force One sat at Los Angeles International Airport for nearly an hour, idling and tying up two runways, while Cristophe, a Beverly Hills stylist whose going rate is $200 a head, gave President Clinton an on-board haircut...
Shilts refutes the assertion with some vivid reporting. He digs up a long- buried Navy study that found no correlation between sexual behavior and job performance. Winston Churchill's era of "rum, sodomy and the lash" has given way to unofficial evenings in gay on-board clubs, special newsletters, travel guides and lubricants formulated in ships' pharmacies...