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...company launched a redesigned Explorer in January. The new machine exceeds safety requirements, and critics of the old Explorer, including Consumer Reports, hailed the new design as safe and efficient. But, like several other new vehicles over the last two years, the Explorer had initial quality problems and several thousand were recalled. The Explorer was the latest on a list that included the award-winning Ford Focus, the popular new Ford Escape, a small SUV, and most important, the Ford Thunderbird, a much-acclaimed new design that was due in showrooms earlier this year but still has not arrived...
...station and ammunition dump on the outskirts of Kandahar, the spiritual capital of the Taliban movement and, until the U.S. bombings began, the headquarters of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. Midway there, we heard a series of small explosions followed by three or four loud blasts. A few thousand meters to our left, on the edges of the cantonment, the ground was spitting up dust and smoke, clouding...
...sections have crumbled since its completion in 1900, a sharp contrast to most roads in the area. Below us are traces of lower trails, narrow and treacherous paths used by workmen who needed to be closer to the river. Short, granite pillars line the path, grooved by a thousand trackers' ropes...
...important part of undergraduate life. I go there after I’ve been out late at night, to see people and to cool down,” Gattman said. “It’s rather silly that three Cambridge residents have been able to outvoice several thousand Harvard students...
...thought for a moment. “About a thousand dollars,” he said. I asked him how long he’d been listening to Tori Amos. “Since “Bliss,” he said, referring to a single released...