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...crash rating is also unchanged. "You can be riding in a $1.8 million Bugatti and you won't get any better protection," says Randle. The 2010 Mustang will also come with a completely new suspension based on the one used in the special "Bullitt" edition Ford put on the road last year in small numbers. Overall, the early-peek reviews are favorable, but not inspirational. As Car and Driver magazine notes, the new Mustang is "heavily revised version of the current car, with changes concentrated in the areas that called for the most improvement...
...never have otherwise encountered, while simultaneously connecting thousands of great artists to a new fanbase. Seventy percent of the 60,000 artists on Pandora are not even signed to a major label, he added. Pandora recently became available on the iPhone, which allows listeners to access it on the road. By offering mobile service, Westergren said, Pandora’s vision for connecting listeners to new artists and artists to new listeners can be more widely available and accessible. “We want to completely fix radio,” he said...
Unfortunately, the primary obstacle to fixing our infrastructure is exactly the problem that anyone still reading is facing; infrastructure is profoundly, unequivocally, and utterly unexciting. There are no union-like picketers banding together to rally for the local toll road. There are no passionate highway rights activists waging sit-ins until freeways receive the new lanes they need to survive. There are no “Save the Bridges” campaigns, and no “I Stand with Route 84” bumper stickers. Despite the staggering number of people served by any individual road or bridge (except...
...report by the GAO provides examples of PPPs for highway infrastructure in the U.S., and highlights those which involve the management of an existing entity—such as the lease of the Chicago Skyway to a private entity for $1.83 billion or the lease of the Indiana Toll Road for $3.85 billion—as well as those which involve bidding out contracts to build and operate new toll roads, such as the part of the Trans-Texas Corridor which calls for a new toll road between Dallas and San Antonio. These transactions usually provide the municipality or state...
...choice that Tibetans are facing isn't a simple fork in the road between seeking independence or seeking autonomy. That's clear from looking at the people expected to play a key role in the talks, which are closed to the public. The central voices of the Tibetan establishment include Lodi Gyari, the Dalai Lama's envoy to Washington and chief negotiator with the Chinese, and Prime Minister Samdhong Rinpoche, who is also seen as a conservative force, along with several Cabinet ministers. Those pushing for radical change include the Tibetan Youth Congress, which is vocal and visible...