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...that, after the associated costs of commuting, I'd be earning only $2 an hour. That spurred my decision to move to a place that has public transportation. If you want to stay in Big Sky country, you might follow the example of the Amish: trade your gas-guzzling pickup for oat-powered horses and a buckboard. Forward to the 19th century...
...unibody" would boost fuel economy as much as 8%. Add a sixth gear to the transmission, lower-friction lubricants and electronic valve controls, and you would be up another 17%. Even redesigning side mirrors to cut wind resistance would help. If automakers improved the fuel economy of SUVs and pickup trucks by 35%, the U.S. would save 1 million bbl. of oil a day, curbing its dependence on foreign crude. Greener SUVs would also free cash for home improvements and consumer spending, boosting the economy...
...press time, the Independent was not planning to write about it, and the Salient made no mention of it in last week’s issue. The only pickup it will receive, according to Golis, is in the Perspective, which has asked him to contribute a piece about the media monopoly to their upcoming issue, due out in late October...
Still, Turner and his men are eager to join the operation. Driving all night along riverbeds and dirt tracks, the convoy reaches its destination at daybreak. A pickup carrying Afghan troops has flipped over, injuring two soldiers, so Turner is down several men. Gates, the least injured passenger in the bombed humvee, insists on coming along. "I wasn't that shaken," says Gates. "I was just pissed that I didn't have a truck anymore. I wanted to do something...
...mountain ridge to keep the fleeing Taliban from outflanking the coalition special forces, who have set up an ambush for their prey in a deep canyon. But the Afghan commander, angry that a medevac chopper is late to arrive for his two soldiers who were injured when the pickup overturned, refuses to let his men join the mission. "Look at these Afghans. Why the hell should we be fighting their war?" says a U.S. sergeant disparagingly...