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Ride sharing generally affords more companionship than a train or bus trip. But that can be a plus or a minus, depending on the quality of your companions. A disclaimer on eRideShare.com reads, "Please keep in mind that there are crazies out there. Don't travel with someone you don't trust." While the American Automobile Association (AAA) encourages carpooling with someone you know, it warns against ride sharing when you don't know who is behind the wheel. "You're hooking up with a perfect stranger," says Robert Sinclair Jr., a spokesman for AAA. "Beyond the fact that they...
...best advice is the one your mother would give: Don't get into a car with perfect strangers, and if their driving makes you uncomfortable, ask them to drop you at the nearest bus or train station...
...side has much latitude here anyway. In a pair of hearings last Wednesday that seemed to produce little news, CENTCOM boss Gen. John Abizaid made it remarkably clear that he didn't see any good options. He said that he didn't want to add more troops (except to train Iraqis) because the Maliki government would never take responsibility for security if he did. But he doesn't want to draw forces down either. Why? He said that none - as in zero - of the nearly 100 already trained Iraqi army units were ready to operate independent of U.S. forces...
...full range of the group's proposals: starting up a regional security group; a restart of the Middle East peace talks; some basket of carrots and sticks on Baghdad. And the White House will have its own internal fight between those who want to get on board this train and the "we-get-to-decide-these-things" crowd that resists outside authority of any kind. My bet is that Vice President Dick Cheney hasn't fought his last battle just...
...black Dodge Charger through San Francisco and then, just outside the city, pulling along side to smack the car into a gas station for a pyrotechnic finish. Or Gene Hackman, as detective Popeye Doyle in The French Connection, careering through Brooklyn streets while chasing a villain in an elevated train, smashing cars along...