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...real break and the starting point of his dancing career came a year and a half later, when he landed a spot in the bus-and-truck tour of Bubbling Brown Sugar. Minahan says the Harlem-inspired musical, which was one of the first shows to feature a primarily black cast, inspired him to prioritize dancing for the first time in his life...

Author: By Juliet J. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Magical Mr. Minahan: A Life in the Lights | 6/5/2001 | See Source »

...developing the Explorer, Ford's engineers were constrained from the start by previous decisions that locked the SUV onto a narrow truck frame and into a front-end suspension that was designed in the 1960s. As early as 1987, a Ford memo warned that "light-truck rollovers are 2 to 4 times the car rate" and urged Explorer developers to consider "any design action that improves vehicle stability or helps maintain the passenger safety in the vehicle." Ford maintains it did exactly this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tired Of Each Other | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

What's a record label to do in China? There may be 1.3 billion pairs of ears, but most of what they're listening to is pirated: either out-and-out rip-offs, or legitimate CDs written off as destroyed that somehow manage to fall off a truck and get sold in an alley. "It's pretty devastating to all the majors," says Cindy Tai, EMI's managing director for China, who estimates fakes comprise 95% of the cassette market and slightly less for CDs. But while many record companies are sitting back and hoping things will improve once China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pirate Us Plenty, Please! | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...Wilderness tires produced at all Firestone factories. Many of the accidents occurred in hot regions, such as Florida and Texas and the Middle East. And no one denies that SUVs roll over more frequently than traditional autos. One reason: until recently most SUVs were built on pickup-truck bodies, which ride higher off the ground, raising the center of gravity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Ford/Firestone Fight | 5/29/2001 | See Source »

...developing the Explorer, Ford's engineers were constrained from the start by previous decisions that locked the SUV onto a narrow truck frame and into a front-end suspension that was designed in the 1960s. As early as 1987, a Ford memo warned that "light-truck rollovers are 2 to 4 times the car rate" and urged Explorer developers to consider "any design action that improves vehicle stability or helps maintain the passenger safety in the vehicle." Ford maintains it did exactly this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Ford/Firestone Fight | 5/29/2001 | See Source »

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