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PHILADELPHIA, March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have found that children who ride inside compact extended cab pickup trucks are at a greater risk of injury than children riding in other vehicles. Findings of the study are published in the March 6 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
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Newsweek ... reports that a division's worth of Abrams main battle tanks have disappeared from Europe and may have been spotted atop transport trucks in Kuwait last week. But the Americans insist that any tanks brought in recently were for routine exercises and would soon go back home. And they insist that recent military activity is just routine training. But a Western official offers a different interpretation: "The Americans have to convince [Iraqi leader] Saddam Hussein they're serious."
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"This new technology gives the trucking industry the ability to keep closer tabs on the thousands of trucks on America's roadways," said Swim. "It provides a better situation for drivers, fleet managers and law-enforcement officials."
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pacific Gas and Electric Company today announced that it has added four Phoenix Motorcars all-electric sport utility trucks (SUTs) to its clean fuel fleet. With one of the nation's largest utility clean fuel fleets, PG&E will test the Phoenix Motorcars SUTs in its daily operations across its 70,000 square mile service area in central and northern California.
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