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• Shifting gears: ex-racer, senator's son films, markets history of stock car racing.

  - 2006-03-20

  Filmmaking, like auto racing, is not for the fainthearted. And John W. Warner IV of Southport should know--he has done both. While he won't admit to racing around the streets of his native Washington, D.C.--he says he has a clean record--he was "notorious" while...

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• Cruisers get defibrillators.

  - 2005-11-01

  Cruisers Get Defibrillators--University of Virginia police this semester installed 13 automated external defibrillator machines in its fleet of patrol cars. University police and security staff have been trained to use the devices, which provide electrical shock to a heart that has stopped beating. The defibrillators were...

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• Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture

  - 2005-01-01

  Jakle, John A, and Keith A. Sculle. Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. xiii + 293 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $34.95. Examines changes in the built environment and urban landscape of the United States caused by the construction of parking...

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• Pedestrians drive safety push.

  - 2002-05-17

  May 12, 2002 (The Courier-Mail ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian automobile safety researchers have backed calls for new "pedestrian-friendly" car designs. Potential design changes include impact-absorbing bumper bars, windscreen airbags and pop-up bonnets. Should these and other design changes be implemented, a University...

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• A Renaissance Man.(Bill Crutchfield, founder of Crutchfield Corp.)

  - 2001-01-01

  Bill Crutchfield "Success is measured not so much by the position one has reached as by the obstacles one has overcome," said Booker T. Washington. Those words ring true for any entrepreneur, including Bill Crutchfield, founder of Crutchfield Corp. ...

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• Christmas sixty years ago: an American odyssey

  - 1998-12-01

  After graduating at Durham and acquiring a teaching diploma in 1938, I then won a Commonwealth Fellowship, to study in the US. Commonwealth Fund Fellows were 24 in number and appointed annually, with a requirement that they should spend their first summer vacation on an extensive tour; books and scholarship...

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