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...orbiter that looks a lot like the old Apollo command module and a lander that resembles the familiar spindly lunar module. The new lander could carry three or more crew members down to the surface and drive them around the lunar landscape, doubling as a sort of extraterrestrial pickup truck. Crews would live for up to 180 days at a time in trailer-like pressurized modules similar to those used aboard the International Space Station. "We're looking at something that can grow without a lot of redesign," says Doug Cooke, leader of the NASA study group that developed...
...most audacious operations, although not a single shot was fired. On the morning of Nov. 14, dozens of men wearing police commando uniforms pulled up in a fleet of pickup trucks at a building belonging to Iraq's Ministry of Higher Education. They fanned out across the four floors and herded everybody--staff and visitors--into a single room. All of them were ordered to hand over their cell phones. Then the women were taken into another room and locked in. About 150 men were marched outside, bundled into the pickup trucks and driven away. The whole operation took just...
...where Nissan earns the bulk of its profits, full-size vehicles like the Armada SUV and Titan pickup need generous incentives to sell, even as gas prices have come down. Armada and Titan drove Nissan into new segments but not without picking up some dents. Both models have scored dismally in consumer surveys of vehicle reliability, tarnishing Nissan's image as a high-quality Japanese brand...
Nissan entered a new segment with the Titan full-size pickup truck, top, and went for coolness with the Quest minivan. Both models have sold poorly this year and dinged Nissan's reputation for quality and stylish design
...ticket for her boyfriend. “I didn’t expect them to sell out so quickly,” she complained in an e-mail. “I also didn’t expect them to not e-mail House lists about ticket pickup.” Even Undergraduate Council President John S. Haddock ’07 did not have a ticket by last evening, he said in an e-mail. But one place Harvard students can still find tickets is on eBay, where one Harvard senior posted two endzone tickets for auction. The pair...