Specialized models include Sony's 2.2-pound Picturebook, with a handy built-in camera, and Panasonic's incredibly rugged Toughbook units, which have managed to keep going even after getting run over by my car.

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What we're seeing on the ground near Kalak today, which is a couple of hours away by car from my location, is a further degradation of Iraq's front line defenses around one of two key northern cities, Mosul.

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So I got escorted out of there by his troops back to my car.

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My car was enveloped by the waves... luckily when the water receded, I managed to start it up and revved it to a hill slope about 100m from my house.

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At the end of the night the two car collectors at my table, obviously moved by the experienced, declared that they were going to buy another Rolls Royce.

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The squad car came up the driveway at eleven-thirty, by my watch.

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Imagining the prophet Jonah boarding his ship in Jaffa just days before he was cast into the sea and swallowed by a whale, I piled into the Israeli girls' car and continued my strange little pilgrimage.

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After spending a recent weekend tooling around suburban Detroit in a hydrogen fuel-cell-powered Honda Motor FCX , I was struck by a remarkable image: By the time my 9-year-old daughter is shopping for her first car, she may well be considering an entirely different kind of automobile--one that runs on hydrogen, not gasoline.

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My little brother even raised eight baby possums after their mother was hit by a car (all named Henry, so it was hard to tell them apart).

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My first experience was a road trip from Toronto to Las Vegas, paid for by a car delivery service.

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