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...Because of this contortion, the Pacific and North American plates cannot slip in a straightforward way but must strain against each other like two sumo wrestlers. The battle of the plates has created numerous smaller fault lines along the San Andreas, giving the region the look of a smashed windshield. Over the millenniums, the Mojave shear zone to the east may offer a path of less resistance to the giant plates and replace the San Andreas as a new plate boundary, suggests geophysicist Amos Nur of Stanford...
Shakhrai, who is trying to prove that the party, which Yeltsin banned last year, was an illegal institution even under Soviet law, emerged from the smashed car with only a bruised shoulder. His bodyguard, who was thrown through the windshield, broke both legs, and his chauffeur suffered an injured spine. The mystery driver sped away, leading some of Shakhrai's colleagues to suspect foul play. "We don't know yet whether it was just an ordinary traffic accident," a spokesman said. As the investigation began, Shakhrai, who dismissed the assassination theory, returned to work...
Robert Kearns has a clear view from his car window to the bank, thanks to a federal jury in Detroit. Last week Kearns, the inventor of intermittent windshield wipers, was awarded $11.3 million for patent infringement by Chrysler. The carmaker must pay him about 90 cents for each of the 12.6 million cars it equipped with the wipers from 1977 to '88. Kearns, who won a similar judgment from Ford in 1990 for $10.2 million, has lawsuits pending against General Motors and 17 other carmakers...
Timothy B. Paydos '92, former associate business manager of The Crimson, said the students shattered his car's windshield...
General Motors and other automakers are tooling up electric cars. Saab is developing a model with a joystick in place of a steering wheel. Electronic dashboard maps are coming. Next: a data screen instead of a windshield...