• John Davis, chief nameplate engineer for Ford's compact cars and utility vehicles, said it's all designed to improve the driving experience: from making the 550-mile trek down Highway 99 from Sacramento to San Diego to the daily 20-mile one-way trip to work - the distance some reports suggest the average American commutes.

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  • This argument might be enough to carry the day, and it would give the court the hook it needs--if it wants one--to provide order in what some say has been a much too unruly post-election contest in the Sunshine State.

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  • Today marks the one-year -- or one-month anniversary of the shooting in Newtown, which seemed to generate some momentum for reinstating the assault weapons ban.

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  • In this connection, high priority must be given to improving the United States' ability to attack and destroy deeply buried assets -- one approach taken by the North Koreans to conceal and harden some of their nuclear weapons-related manufacturing sites.

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  • After 64 matches, 17 red cards, 161 goals and 266 yellow cards in South Korea and Japan, this U.S.-based spectator, for one, can return to getting some sleep in the black-coffee hours of the morning.

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  • Garcia used a cart to jump into the tree, and after a few minutes, hit a one-handed, back-handed shot back to the fairway, before jumping some 8 feet back to the ground.

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  • Two years after acknowledging "shame" over the "evils" of abuse, Benedict issued a statement in 2010 saying the church had not been vigilant or fast enough in responding to the problem -- one of the most forthright admissions to date, though it still did not placate some who criticized then-Cardinal Ratzinger for not cracking down sufficiently.

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  • But it turns out that Mr Keino's eldest son - the one who normally drives the minivan for the athletes - has gone to market to sell some tomatoes.

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  • Some are one-man-in-a-basement operations, but some have 15 to 20 employees.

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  • So how is one to square this assessment with the conventional wisdom -- also to some extent borne out by polling data -- that the public is in an isolationist mood, convinced that we must concentrate resources and energy on domestic concerns rather than international ones and opposed to the use of military power overseas?

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  • This is just one step - of many - that needs to be taken to restore both some trust and some faith in the political system.

    BBC: Cameron's data speech in full

  • They looted everything, but not before he had returned to make one mad effort to save some of his academic books - an effort to preserve something from a more sane past.

    BBC: Studying history at Kabul University

  • While Social Security played a key part in reducing poverty rates among the elderly from more than one-third to less than 10 percent over the past half-century, the system is increasingly leaving some seniors behind.

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  • And just in case his message of martial resolve was failing to get through, he used his acceptance speech for his Nobel Peace Prize last December to explain to some startled Scandinavian peaceniks why some wars, such as the one against al-Qaeda, were just and necessary.

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  • Today, it is a nine-hour drive from Kabul to Bamiyan --- and the ride is one over broken roads that passes through some dangerous provinces.

    CNN: Oasis from the ruins: Afghanistan opens first national park

  • They were in league with one another for some time - to bring an end to the 24-year autocracy of Daniel arap Moi, who held on to colorful (unintelligible) in this country, it appears.

    NPR: Kenyans Vote in Presidential Election

  • So, as they were taking us one by one, some of the last people to come out -- again, they were, I don't know, they were afraid or whatever -- they did the same thing.

    CNN: Transcript of John Walker interview

  • The EU - after the Greek elections - may decide to throw in some funds that lie unused in one of its accounts.

    BBC: Bond deal brings Greece little comfort

  • During the next one to three years, some estimates expect 2-3 million foreclosures, with 2011 expected to be the peak year.

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  • "It means you've got to have constructive competition with a clash of ideas which actually leads to some results - and one party consolidating parts of what the other party has done, as Tony Blair consolidated Thatcherism".

    BBC: Is the UK better at politics than the US?

  • Putting mail through 26 million front doors every day gives the postman unique access to every household, and it's a privilege that extends the responsibility of the job beyond one of delivery man, or woman, to - in some cases - neighbourhood watch, community guardian and social worker, rolled into one.

    BBC: Are we falling out of love with the postie?

  • Farooq, then 44, inherited two treaties his father had signed with New Delhi -- one in 1952 with Jawaharlal Nehru, the second in 1975 with Indira Gandhi -- that were to bring some measure of autonomy to Kashmir.

    CNN: BRAVE AS A LION

  • That goes to raising the debt ceiling and it goes to some of the -- one of the reasons why the President opposes the Republican budget, House Republican budget, because he believes that it would have a negative impact on seniors and others, and have an overall negative impact on the potential for growth in the economy.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • There's no one-size-fits-all approach to productivity, but Allen and company have some great ideas to help you declutter your life and make way for big, creative boosts of productivity.

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  • About one-third to one-half of adolescents who begin smoking may do so because they see smoking in the movies, some research suggests, and the tobacco industry has spent big bucks in the past to make sure cigarettes appeared in popular movies, according to Smoke Free Movies, a University of California San Francisco project.

    CNN: As movies portray fewer smokers, fewer teens light up

  • Research has shown that more than a quarter (28%) of all adults smoke, while 43% have tried to give up at some point - and around one fifth (21%) are trying to do so now.

    BBC: NEWS | Health | Majority back public smoking ban

  • She found that nearly all her subjects had been forced by competing claims of jobs and families to look for jobs at which they could work when they wanted to work, rather than be squeezed into some nine-to-five, one-size-fits-all organizational schedule.

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  • Or compelling Mark Zuckerberg to stay on campus and work in the computer lab the way some proposed modifications to the current one-and-done system might do for basketball players.

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  • The one-to-one link between the peso and the dollar has restored some faith in recent years, removing the thousand-per-cent inflation common before the 1990s, but at the cost of exports which are priced out of their target markets.

    BBC: Argentina faces grim economic future

  • One-quarter of them will need to live in nursing or assisted-living homes at some point.

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