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...nice if you could diagnose your car's ills without handing over the keys to a shady auto mechanic? Car MD's handy new $90 gadget is designed to measure the health of any car made in 1996 or later. The little device plugs into a port below your car's dashboard and presents a red, yellow or green light to let you know if there's something wrong with the vehicle's electronics. It won't tell you if your tire pressure is low or give you a detailed breakdown on all of the car's systems...
...19th century Edo, as Tokyo was known. These include works by such giants as Utagawa Hiroshige, Katsushika Hokusai and Kitagawa Utamaro. Rarer still are the fierce battle scenes from the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-95 that Monet collected, as well as images of Westerners relaxing in Yokohama, the port city that became the focus of Japanese contact with the West. Monet had several of Hiroshige's scenes from the classic Japanese novel The Tale of Genji, plus the lively, almost offhand sketches of animals and ordinary folk by Ogata Korin...
...used to dream to be here," he says as we pass the Maba al Mukarama, another old Italianate colonnade. "It was one of those famous places. But then it became only a place for killers, and for 14 years I could not visit." Though they lived in a port city a mere 15 minutes walk from the shore, "some of my children had never seen the sea," Fanah adds. When the Courts removed the warlord's blockades that had barricaded the city into tiny, heavily armed enclaves, he took his kids to the beach. " 'Why is all this water...
...That's the Bank of Somalia. That's the Ministry for National Heritage. That's the American embassy - there used to be a camera right out, attached to the gates, I remember it. That's the French embassy." We pass a grand arch with a clear view of the port. "That's the port entrance - Italy's gateway to its new colony...
Also new this season, the losing team will have to sleep outdoors and use port-a-potties, according to the statement...