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...widely known that GM had to work wonders to keep the Solstice under $20,000, cobbling together parts and components from various vehicle lines. The naturally aspirated four-cylinder engine delivers 177-horsepower and 166 lb. ft of torque. According to Road & Track, it propels the Solstice from zero-to-60 in 7.2 seconds. But the engine feels inadequate at highway speeds. Flooring the throttle at 60 m.p.h. in 5th gear produced not a roar but a gentle puff of speed-embarrassing in a car with pretenses to sprightliness. While the vehicle cornered adequately, thanks to the rear-wheel architecture...
Wearing exactly zero cowboy hats between them, they said goodbye to the stranger, shook his hand, and accepted his offer of luck. Not that they needed...
...there were just a few things Matt and Andrew didn’t know about Toby Keith. They did not know that before he turned to music, he worked as a rodeo hand. They did not know that he once bragged that before him, “there was zero attitude in country music.” And they did not know that he was the author of the 2001 “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue.” In that song, Keith promised retribution to the terrorists responsible for the “mighty sucker...
...Bush declared a policy of zero tolerance for lawbreakers in New Orleans, evidently on the grounds that good citizens can go without food and water until the government can supply them at some undetermined time in the future. That is probably not what he meant, but as the world knows, what Bush says does not necessarily have much connection with what he means. Paul Kunino Lynch Katoomba, Australia...
...mobile TV for London consultancy Screen Digest, notes that in Britain alone there are 55 million mobile users. "Even if you get 10-15% penetration, that's big bucks," he says. And he predicts that by 2012 some 256 million mobile-TV handsets will be shipped, up from essentially zero this year. Traditional broadcasters seem eager to rev up this new way of reaching viewers, in part because they can do it over the normal broadcast airwaves they already control rather than over mobile networks. The O2 trial, for example, taps into TV towers owned by Arqiva that emit...