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Reuters – General Motors Corp said on Tuesday it reached a tentative deal to sell its Hummer brand to a privately held Chinese heavy machinery maker, part of an effort to drop four unprofitable vehicle lines and leave bankruptcy as a leaner company.
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AP – Police have arrested a U.S. Marine Corps recruiter on charges of felony pimping and kidnapping and are looking into whether he used sex with a 14-year-ancient girl to entice potential recruits.
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By Steve Huettel, Times Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
The best clues to what caused the crash of Air France Flight 447 could lie inside two devices, each the size of a couple of shoe boxes, some 3 miles deep in the Atlantic Ocean.
The tough, small “black boxes” can withstand massive impacts and send a “ping” noise from depths of 20,000 feet that ships with underwater microphones can use to locate them.
“It’s extremely rare for (investigators) not to be able to extract the data, even if they’re hurt,” said George Bibel, a University of North Dakota mechanical engineering pr
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