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...driver and guards you hire,'' he reports. ''The right translator makes all the difference. 'Said' saved my life in December by talking a gunman out of shooting me for looking like an American.'' (He's actually Canadian.) Guards are also important: several gunmen protecting Andrew fired back when his truck was ambushed in the Bakhara market earlier this year, enabling him to make a quick getaway. Andrew rides around Mogadishu in an old Toyota Land Cruiser with goatskin seat covers, Armed Forces Radio booming from the speakers, but that doesn't provide much relaxation. ''It took me months to figure...
...understandable precaution - security in the capital has reached an all time low. On July 7 a suicide bomber rammed his explosives laden truck into the gates of the Indian embassy, killing 41 in the capital's worst terrorist attack. In April assassins attempted to kill Karzai at a national day parade, and in January militants conducted a sophisticated raid on the country's only luxury hotel, killing 9. This year in Afghanistan as a whole has been the bloodiest ever. For two months running foreign soldier casualties in Afghanistan have topped those in Iraq, Obama's anticipated next stop...
...company's engineering and capital spending are also being cut, freezing development of new trucks and SUVs. Marketing budgets will also be trimmed, including as yet unspecified support for motorsports such as NASCAR. GM is also planning to defer a $1.7 billion payment to the special trust created last year to cover the cost of health care for retired blue-collar workers; it would also expedite the shutdown of four truck plants originally announced at the company's annual meeting in June. GM plans to raise another $4 billion to $7 billion by selling off assets like its Hummer brand...
...door. A white family moved in, and one day Kennedy saw his new neighbors watering their lawn. "They'd be out there with a hot tub out on the porch," he says, "and I was still going down the road [to the local water treatment plant] with a pickup truck every day." Like many Zanesville area residents, he couldn't drill a well because the surrounding coal mines have contaminated the water, rendering it undrinkable. The mines have been closed for years, but the ground is so full of sulfur that residents say the water runs red. In Coal...
...Production will halt at both the new Tundra plant in San Antonio, Texas, and one in Princeton, Ind. where the Sequoia was scheduled resume production in early November. "The truck market continues to worsen, so unfortunately we must temporarily suspend production," said Jim Wiseman, vice president/external affairs for Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America...