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...whole. "Within the community, there's a tendency to think, Oh, this guy's from a good family; he won't go down that path," says Stewart. This may explain why Zamzam's group apparently didn't set off any alarms in the Virginia Muslim community before their sudden disappearance in late November. At the mosque Zamzam frequented, he seemed to have made no special impression on the imam or his fellow worshippers. Nor did Hasan stand out among the believers at his mosque, near Fort Hood...
Toyota's announcement last week that it will recall more than 3.8 million vehicles is unlikely to end the controversy over the car's sudden-acceleration problems. Following complaints about the problem - and a deadly accident in California last summer - the company acknowledged that floor mats, if not secured properly, could get stuck under the accelerator pedal, leaving a vehicle's throttle stuck open. Hence the recall, to replace the accelerator pedals and floor mats...
Other critics contend that Toyota may be imposing a fix without fully understanding the problem. "For years, Toyota Motor Corporation has dismissed complaints of sudden acceleration as being the driver's fault," says David Wright, a Redlands, Calif., attorney, who recently filed a class-action lawsuit against Toyota. "But neither driver error nor floor mats can explain away many other frightening instances of runaway Toyotas. Until the company acknowledges the real problem and fixes it, we worry that other preventable injuries and deaths will occur," Wright says. He contends that errant electrical signals may be triggering some of the sudden...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and his cohorts labeled this week's sudden change in the country's currency, which has left chaos in its wake, economic "reform." On Monday the North Korean regime decided to lop off two zeroes from the existing paper currency, the won, and gave North Koreans less than a week to exchange all their old notes for new ones...
...sudden drop in Harvard’s endowment has brought our community to a crossroads. For many years, top administrators at Harvard have encouraged—or acquiesced to—policies that give greater weight to the bottom line than to the university’s historic mission, deferring to hired money managers rather than to its own experienced community. The endowment’s $8 billion loss is a stark warning of the peril that Harvard faces as it speeds down the corporate highway...