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...former museum official says the museum did not buy anything it "knew or strongly suspected came from an illicit source." The Times also reported that the trust's president, Barry Munitz, has had the Getty spring for such perks as first-class plane tickets, yacht rentals and a Porsche SUV (which he reportedly directed should have "the biggest possible sunroof"). Because the Getty is a nonprofit institution, taxpayers would be underwriting his airline legroom, and the California attorney general is investigating the spending...
...three cars rolled forward some 300 m to put distance between them and the traffic queued behind them. They were still about 1 km short of the U.S. roadblock. There they remained for over 10 minutes, talking nervously on their radios. Suddenly, to their right, a white Chevrolet SUV with blacked-out windows sped along a slip road, made a U turn, and stopped about 200 m away, facing the convoy. From its passenger window, a belt-fed machinegun opened fire. The first bullets announced themselves with a puff of dust beside Yeager's vehicle, then a burst hit Ahmelman...
...could give all of us a nasty taste of what oil dependency really means. Just a few weeks ago, George W. Bush suggested Americans might need to think about how much oil they use. When this President starts talking about conservation, you know it's time to ditch the suv...
Despite the hazards, the pilgrims keep coming. You can reach Bodh Gaya by flying from New Delhi to Patna, the capital of the state of Bihar, and hiring an SUV for $45 for a bumpy three-hour road trip or by taking a train to the Gaya, half an hour away. You won't find anything remotely like a luxury hotel in Bodh Gaya, but the Lotus Nikko (about $70 a night for a double room) is comfortable. Some monasteries also offer rooms to visitors...
...Mystery does not sit well with us, nor random tragedy, nor helplessness in the face of a ruthless wind, so we place our trust in better sensors and protocols and reinforced concrete and roofs designed to rebuff the gale. The cataclysm of Katrina has been blamed on everything from SUV drivers to coastal developers to the Army Corps of Engineers, in a strange rite of reassurance: if man has the power to cause these calamities, maybe he would have the power to prevent them. The speed with which the commentariat moved from covering an actual storm to a political...