Word: pickups
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...fleet makes for a fine show. On the first day of school, I listened to dozens of little kids board the wrong buses and forget how to get home. Each time, the dispatchers directed the drivers to return the kids to the schools even if that delayed the next pickup by an hour. Here was a group of people genuinely determined to leave no child behind...
...know, I'm a union guy. I still play pickup games three times a week...
...fact that there are many evangelical churches, even conservative ones, that think the involvement of pastors in the filibuster fight is an inappropriate mixing of church and state. Scarborough is intent on saving the U.S. from "judicial tyranny"--so intent, in fact, that he once ran his massive Dodge pickup off a country road because he was distracted by the e-mails he was checking on his BlackBerry. If he doesn't succeed, he insists, the consequences will be terrible, especially for people of faith. "Where we are headed right now with separation of church and state is that Christians...
...system installed in a large Ford pickup truck looked more like a family-vacation outfit than a security tool. Each of four passengers had a color video screen and easy access to a small box with knobs and a joystick. Only this wasn't a game: it was part of a remotely operated weapons system. The screens display views from cameras atop the truck with a range, clarity and thermal-imaging capacity that permit operators to see what the human eye cannot. The joystick allows a gunner to aim the cameras and fire a machine gun, also mounted...
...Like the pickup truck and Interstate 40, Knox fails to fit Hollywood's western stereotype: he is a cowboy poet. Despite the apparent oxymoron, verse has its place on the range, and Knox and his fellow horseback balladeers capture well the cowboy's changing world...