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...last week. First, Bridgestone/Firestone CEO John Lampe brought the tiremaker's 95-year-old business with Ford Motor Co. to a screeching halt over what Lampe called "significant concerns" about the safety of the Ford Explorer. One day later, Ford said it would replace 13 million Firestone Wilderness AT tires-mounted mainly on Explorers-that were excluded from Firestone's sweeping 6.5 million tire recall last August. Firestone admitted that those tires were no good but maintains that everything else on the road today is safe. Ford doesn't see it that way. Declared Ford boss Jacques Nasser: "We simply...
...even before it hit the market in 1990-as a sibling for the notorious bucking Bronco II, which cost the company approximately $2.4 billion in damage settlements. Previously undisclosed memos and e-mails show the extent to which the engineers were juggling decisions about the Explorer's suspension systems, tire pressure, weight and steering characteristics, plus its height and width, all of which could factor into a vehicle's stability...
...Ford Motor Co., last year's Firestone-tire crisis created a legal pileup that could wreck the company's consumer-centric strategy. Ford still faces hundreds of lawsuits that seek damages totaling at least $590 million on behalf of the victims of rollovers of Firestone-equipped sport-utility vehicles, most of which involved the wildly popular Ford Explorer. According to federal data, 174 people have died and more than 700 have been injured in accidents stemming from tread separations and other problems linked to the 6.5 million 15-in. SUV tires that Firestone recalled last August...
...Still, all is not lost. Peace and violence, of course, move in cycles in the Middle East. And while the peace cycle of the 1990s appears to have run its course, there's little doubt that eventually the two sides will tire of the increasingly bloody stalemate and start talking again. But that would require a winding down of the cycle of violence. And right now the signs are that it hasn't yet peaked...
...cell tissue replacement is half a decade off at least, and nobody knows what unexpected glitches might arise to make the whole idea impossible. Besides, the hazards of true obesity are enormous. But if the research pans out, it may someday be as prudent to carry a modest spare tire around your waist as it is to carry one in the trunk of your...