Moving-van driver Derrick Mazyck, 32 years old, spent three hours getting from Brooklyn to a job on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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Forbes pulled its data from a study by moving company United Van Lines, which analyzed customer moves across the 48 continental states in 2012.

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Unite said the plant closures could lead to the loss of up to 2, 000 jobs at Ford, with production of the Transit van moving to Turkey.

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Moving company United Van Lines released its 36th annual study of customer migration patterns, analyzing a total of 125, 000 moves across the 48 continental states in 2012.

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He rolls up the window and gives all his attention to the car, to backing it out of its tight spot and moving it so as not to come in contact with the van, as if there were no more to be said or managed.

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The latest problem, according to a new article in Acta Astronautica (we've really been meaning to renew our subscription), is that a space elevator would be so slow-moving (200 kph, or 124 mph) that the half-week spent in the Van Allen radiation belt would kill any living thing without proper shielding.

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