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Moments later, a huge blast ripped into the powder blue 1981 Toyota Corona, hurling it across the three-lane road. An improvised explosive device, intended for the patrols, had gone off just 10 feet from the car. The two men were slammed against the windshield, shattering it, and were showered by a hail of shrapnel. Salah's left arm and hand were torn to shreds below the elbow, and blood spurted from two gaping wounds in his left thigh. Both men were lacerated by shrapnel and burned. A shard of glass cut a deep gash in Abu Karam's neck...
...result was a series of groundbreaking new work rules to enhance morale and productivity at Saturn. Instead of performing a single tedious task like attaching windshield wipers as cars whiz past on a long assembly line, employees would work together in self-directing teams of six to 15 people. Each team would be responsible for large sections of the car, and its members would have the latitude to reach a consensus on how to divide up and rotate job assignments. Most important, production workers would receive a salary instead of an hourly wage as they...
...another. Earthquakes tend to occur in clusters in subduction zones, and McCloskey says his initial findings indicate that the latest quake has accentuated the stress along the Sunda Trench fault for another 300 km south. The result is like the steady growth of a crack in a car windshield. "We don't know if this means another quake is imminent," says McCloskey. "But the stresses are still very much alive in the area...
...Billerica woman reported that her car was vandalized while it was parked on Columbia Street. The windshield wipers were ripped off, the gas tank was ripped off, and the passenger’s mirror was also broken...
DIED. ROBERT KEARNS, 77, feisty inventor of intermittent windshield wipers, who took on automotive giants to defend his patents; of cancer; in Sykesville, Md. Kearns battled Ford and Chrysler all the way to the Supreme Court, winning $30 million in settlements but never peace of mind...