Seat backs would be higher
By JAIME SARRIO
Staff Writer
All new school buses will be required to have higher seat backs, and some, shoulder and lap safety belts, if a new rule is approved by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
The regulation would strengthen school bus safety laws in some states, including Tennessee, by requiring lap and shoulder […]
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We’re always a little wary of unconfirmed speed reports derived from beta software — especially when no build number is given — but a Florida shop called Devil Mountain Systems is claiming that Windows XP SP3 will offer a 10 percent speed increase over SP2, going so far […]
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Online retailers, bracing for a record holiday season, say their busiest day will come in December’s second week; eBay calls it “Green Monday”
by Catherine Holahan
Two years ago, a group of savvy marketers deemed the first workday after Thanksgiving the biggest online shopping day of the year. But e-tailers have long known that the digital […]
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The rioting, touched off by two teens’ deaths, illustrates tensions in France’s immigrant neighborhoods.
By Geraldine Baum, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
PARIS — Dozens of rock-throwing youths battled police for a second night Monday in a suburb north of Paris, illustrating the hair-trigger tension in France’s poor immigrant neighborhoods.
The violence began Sunday in Villiers-le-Bel after two […]
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