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...dirt bikers that lists the sport's contests and teaches readers how to make spiked ice tires for the winter. Chuck glorifies trailer- park food -- such dishes as Armour Potted Meat Food Product; and FishWrap publishes poetry like Craig Thompson's "Swarm," which includes the line: "Splattered on the windshield, a thousand gnats struck low by physics...
Efforts to get these motorists off the road typically run into the classic struggle of individual rights vs. public safety. Proposals that would require motorists to display a valid license on their windshield have languished for two decades because of concerns for privacy. "The courts say mobility is a right. They have frowned upon any type of surveillance program to catch these people," says Jack Grant, a project manager for the International Association of Chiefs of Police. While traffic codes in most states permit police to make random stops to check for a valid operator's license, the majority...
...most notorious recent use of an assault weapon occurred late last month in Waukesha, Wisconsin, where two bank robbers tumbled out of their getaway car and shot to death a veteran police captain through the windshield of his vehicle with M1-A1 assault rifles. "He didn't have a chance," said a colleague, Captain Terry Martorano. "They executed...
...April 24, 1990, Rajavi, 56, was heading for his home in the Geneva suburb of Coppet. Shortly before noon, a Volkswagen Golf swerved in front of his car and sprayed the windshield with bullets. Two gunmen jumped out of a second car and methodically pumped five bullets into Rajavi's head. One of the killers leaned over and tucked a navy blue baseball cap into the door pocket. It was the third time police had found a blue baseball cap at the scene of an Iranian assassination...
...drew the assignment to create a new midsize car, he and chief engineer Francois Castaing physically began tearing down and breaking apart clay models, pulling out the wheels until they stood at the edge of the metal, stretching them to the very extremes front and back, pushing the windshield over the hood until it began to look like the front of a locomotive. The changes opened up the height, width and interior space in ways that had never been experienced in similar-size cars. The result was a design as instantly recognizable and distinctive as Harley Earl's fins...