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While some 75% of U.S. supplies gets into Afghanistan through Pakistan, those overland supply routes are coming under increasing insurgent attacks. Washington has won approval from Russia and Kazakhstan to ship non-lethal supplies (such as food and fuel) into Afghanistan by rail. Army General David Petraeus, chief of U.S. Central Command, was in Uzbekistan seeking similar rights this week, and the U.S. military is also studying routes through Tajikistan...
Dodge makes a popular muscle car, the Challenger, that comes in Tora Red and Hemi Orange. (Hemi is car-speak for a type of engine that accelerates like a rocket). There's a shiny red one, with a big green bow on the hood, on the showroom floor in Overland Park, Kan., and sales manager Mike Sullivan is confident it will be sold - and soon...
...week between Christmas and New Year's Day is traditionally the busiest of the year for car dealers, and Sullivan predicts it will be as good as ever. In fact, the folks at Overland Park Jeep Dodge are feeling so bullish that 50 extra cars were ordered for the early months of 2009. "We've already bottomed out," he said with the upbeat attitude of a true salesman. "Each month has been building back to normalcy." See photos of the 50 Worst Cars of All Time...
...October was bleak: the dealership sold only 30 cars for the month compared with a normal 15-18 a week. But December's numbers are solid, he said, thanks in part to his deep roots in the community and solid ties to bankers. Compared to many dealers, Overland Park Jeep Dodge hasn't been troubled by lack of consumer credit. All of his 70 employees have safe jobs, Thompson declared...
What is your favorite NFL city to visit? - Marc McNally in Overland Park...