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...first thing you will notice is the roomy interior. The 2004 Prius is just 5 in. longer than the old model but has several inches more backseat legroom and a surprisingly large trunk beneath its hatchback. You'll also note the unusual controls: no key is necessary. Instead, you insert a small plastic unit about the size of a matchbook into a slot on the dash, then step on the brake and push the power button. Next you move a small joystick mounted on the dash to the "D" position to start moving. It seems odd at first...
...persistent culture of violence and poor oversight in the Irish police. Walsh, 35, and her sister Ciara were walking through trendy Grafton Street with friends on a cool night in April 1998 when an unmarked police car reversed toward them. To avoid getting run over, Walsh banged on the trunk - for which she was arrested and hurled into the back of a police van. When Ciara protested, she was arrested too. On their way to the station, Walsh says she was held by the hair while a policeman knelt on her back. When the van door opened, she was shoved...
...Syed Hanif, a middle-aged auto-rickshaw driver living in the northern Bombay area of Chimatpada, climbed into a taxi along with his wife, Fahmida, and two daughters, 16-year-old Farheen and four-year-old Shakira. As police later recounted, Hanif threw a heavy bag into the trunk of the cab and instructed the driver to take them to the Gateway of India, a Bombay landmark and one of the city's most popular tourist spots. Once there, the family told the driver to wait for them while they had lunch. Within a few minutes of their departure...
...Arshat Ansari, to pull off the Aug. 25 bombings that killed 52 and injured 175 in Bombay. While Ansari allegedly placed his bomb in a taxi at Zaveri Bazaar, a crowded jewelry market, police say the Hanifs had packed explosives in the bag they stashed in the taxi's trunk, then detonated it at the Gateway. With their youngest daughter, Shakira, in tow, the Hanifs then walked through the panic-stricken crowds to safety. Although Hanif's third child, a teenage boy, was not involved, Maria says Hanif's wife and teenage daughter "were both willing accomplices...
...talk turns to the impact of climbing on the natural environment--a hot topic among climbers. Kurt Hack, 37, from South Bend, Ind., points to a cedar tree that grows right up the side of the boulder. Someone has used an ax to cut climbing steps into the trunk all the way to the top of the boulder. "Whoever did that didn't know much about low-impact climbing," says Hack...