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...feds came down hard against the nation's top automaker, targeting General Motors' controversial full-size pickup. Transportation Secretary Federico Pena announced today that C and K series models of that truck made from 1973 to 1987 pose an unreasonable safety risk. The location of the gas tank outside of the main-body rails makes the vehicles vulnerable to fires in side-impact collisions, officials say. The finding could lead to a government-ordered recall later this year of the 4.5 to 6.3 million such vehicles that are on the road, which could cost $1 billion. The government action...
There would be little time for that. Two months after receiving his Pulitzer, Carter would be dead of carbon-monoxide poisoning in Johannesburg, a suicide at 33. His red pickup truck was parked near a small river where he used to play as a child; a green garden hose attached to the vehicle's exhaust funneled the fumes inside. "I'm really, really sorry," he explained in a note left on the passenger seat beneath a knapsack. "The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist...
...Braamfonteinspruit is a small river that cuts southward through Johannesburg's northern suburbs -- and through Parkmore, where the Carters once lived. At around 9 p.m., Kevin Carter backed his red Nissan pickup truck against a blue gum tree at the Field and Study Center. He had played there often as a little boy. The Sandton Bird Club was having its monthly meeting there, but nobody saw Carter as he used silver gaffer tape to attach a garden hose to the exhaust pipe and run it to the passenger-side window. Wearing unwashed Lee jeans and an Esquire T shirt...
...stick around? "This is God's land," says 26-year-old John Korte, who lives in a little pickup he parks here and there. Harold Wondsel lives in an old bus and Bill Pinkard in a mountainside lean-to and Rusty Scott in a condemned mining shack with four buddies -- no locks, no heat, cold water, expecting an eviction notice, in case he was getting comfortable (he heard the property has been sold for half a million). "There's no concept of the pain we go through," said Scott, a counterman who made it through -40 degreesF nights...
...decades % he passed increasingly precious secrets, at blood-chilling personal risk. In Moscow he brazenly stole from the GRU stockroom a special kind of self- destructing film that he used to photograph secret documents, as well as hollow, fake stones in which to conceal the film in meadows for pickup by U.S. spies. To signal his handlers, he would ride the tram past the U.S. embassy and activate a miniature "burst" transmitter hidden in his pocket. During postings abroad, he would pass information face to face: in the back alleys of Rangoon or among the bulrushes along the Yamuna River...