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Fortunately that wasn't true-this elder statesman version of Green Day has added musical competence to back up the snot-nosed attitude of yesteryear. Though the set included some 25 songs or half-completed songs, the band never seemed to tire, and sounded tight all the way through the six-song encore. With an excellent sound mix, the vocal hooks were audible and the guitar punchy and loud. Even songs from the newest album, calm by comparison on recording, came out action-packed and catchy...
Nowhere is the siege worse than at Ford, where its top-selling Explorer is the target of increasing scrutiny. Now that Firestone has finally admitted that some of its recalled tires have a defect that causes their treads to separate, congressional investigators and personal-injury lawyers have switched to clamoring for answers about the safety record of the Explorer. Does its design increase the chances that a manageable tire blowout could turn into a fatal rollover...
There is mounting evidence that it may. According to an internal Ford memo in the hands of congressional investigators, the company concluded after looking into accidents in Venezuela that "the high incidence [of] vehicle rollover after a tire blowout or tread loss has not been detected for other vehicle brands," such as Toyota, GM or Chrysler. Last May, according to a confidential Firestone document obtained by TIME, Firestone officials suggested to their colleagues at Ford in Venezuela that the Explorer's suspension was a factor. Ford disagreed, as it still does...
While not conceding any mistakes, Ford last Friday announced it was raising its recommended tire pressure to 30 p.s.i. The company also reiterated that there have been no major incidents among the 600,000 Explorers mounted with Goodyear tires inflated at 26 p.s.i. Most important, Ford says, the government's own data show that the Explorer is one of the safest SUVS on the road and is less likely than its rivals to suffer a fatal crash or rollover...
...only for the poor that the studio builds. In downtown Greensboro it constructed the Children's Center. Serving as a shelter for abused youngsters, it is a colorful, even humorous place with tilted windows, a welcoming canopy, children's handprints in the concrete, and a tractor tire swing. And on a nearby farm in Sawyerville, it built Yancey Chapel. The church rests on a ridge in the woods and is made from discarded tires and old timber as well as slate dredged from a creek. All the materials are humble, yet Yancey is anything but pedestrian. With a font whose...