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Bridgestone in billion-dollar buy for US-based Bandag TODAYonline
A mechanic checks a Bridgestone tyre used during Formula One test sessions. Japan's top tiremaker Bridgestone is to buy Bandag Inc. of the United States for 1.05 billion dollars in a bid to expand its business amid a tough spell in the industry
Customized gifts for car buffs Detroit News
Shopping for a gearhead this holiday season?
Cars Wii CNET
Steering Cars with the Wii Remote works pretty nicely, but some of the minigame control schemes and a few Wii-version-specific bugs conspire to drag down this film-licensed racer.
Organ donations: How to say no San Jose Mercury News
It was Monday, Shawn Stringfellow's usual night to shoot pool. He was 30 years old, healthy and happily employed as a heavy-equipment mechanic. Soon, he and Kellie Highland would be married.
Red Steel Needs Retooling Wired News
The much-maligned first-person shooter/sword-fighting title makes great use of the Wii controller, but the game design was clearly rushed to make launch day. In Game|Life.
Charles Rock Sr. Baltimore Sun
[ Age 90 ] Starting as an aviation mechanic, he spent four decades building aircraft for Martin Marietta. Charles M. Rock Sr., a longtime administrator at Martin Marietta Corp. who helped build bombers during World War II, died of leukemia Nov. 26 at the Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. He was 90 and lived in Towson.
TOP STORIES :: Chicago Sun-Times
Q. I'm in trouble with my wife because the power front passenger seat in our 2007 Toyota Avalon just moves back and forth -- not up and down, as was the case with our 1996 and 2001 Avalons. I assumed the passenger seat operated the same way with the new Avalon and thus didn't check it.
U.S. Army Battling To Save Equipment Washington Post
ANNISTON, Ala. -- Field upon field of more than 1,000 battered M1 tanks, howitzers and other armored vehicles sit amid weeds here at the 15,000-acre Anniston Army Depot -- the idle, hulking formations symbolic of an Army that is wearing out faster than it is being rebuilt.
Citizens urged to take precautions for first winter weather McKinney Messenger
By the calendar, winter is still about three weeks away, but the arrival of the season’s first Arctic cold front yesterday has everyone reaching for cold weather gear and mugs of hot chocolate.
Volunteers help foster children find a home Richmond Register
A child could linger in the foster care system up to 29 months without receiving a permanent home, according to 2001 statistics.
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