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 Five large family passenger cars and three large luxury models earned top ratings Sunday in frontal crash tests by the insurance industry.The highest ratings went to 2005 family vehicles such as the Buick LaCrosse, Chrysler 300, Ford Five Hundred, Kia Amanti, Toyota Avalon and three luxury passenger cars; Acura RL, Cadillac STS and Lexus GS.In the front crash test, vehicles strike a barrier on the driver side at 40 mph.Adrian Lund, the chief operating officer at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, an industry-funded group, said Chrysler  stanley polska had made strides in the frontal protection offered by the 300. The car starts at $24,200.In 1999, two of the 300 s predecessors, the Chrysler LHS, and its corporate twin 300M, received the institute s lowest rating for frontal crashes.        But in the recent tests, the 300 s front compartment maintained its shape, letting the air bag and seat belt protect the dummy. When the dummy moved forward into the air bag, it returned to the seat without its head striking any structure that could have caused injury.Lund called the 300 a  good performer across the board in the frontal test. This is the kind of performance we like to see. Max Gates, a DaimlerChrysler AG spokesman, said the institute s test was one of many that the automaker takes into account when it designs and engineers vehicles. While no single test can det stanley tumbler ermine a vehicle s overall safety performance, the Chrysler G stanley cup roup continues to pursue every opportunity to improve the cra Kffo Pakistan Strikes Alleged Al Qaeda Camps
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 An interceptor rocket smashed into a dummy warhead 140 miles over the Pacific Friday night in the fourth successful test of part of the planned U.S. missile defense system, a Pentagon spokeswoman said.The interceptor, launched from a tiny Pacific island near the equator, destroyed the dummy warhead at 9:41 p.m.,  stanley cups uk Pentagon spokeswoman Cheryl Irwin said.The test was the sixth of a prototype of a gr stanley cup canada ound-based missile defense system. The interceptor successfully destroyed the dummy warhead in three of the previous five tests, including the most recent one in December. The military is also developing ship-based and other types of anti-missile systems.The military launched the target missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 9:11 p.m., Irwin said. The interceptor took off from Meck Island in Kwajalein Atoll at 9:32 p.m. and collided with the dummy warhead in space nine minutes later, she said.Friday s test was the most complex of its kind so far. The dummy missile jettisoned three balloons to try to f stanley flasche ool the interceptor. The most recent test included only one decoy balloon.        The Bush administration is pressing ahead with development of the anti-missile systems, saying the United States needs a defense if a rogue country like North Korea develops and fires long-range missiles at American shores.President Bush announced last year he was pulling the United States out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, which bans such missile defenses. Russia and some other c Qauw Aide: Bush Budget Curbs Domestic Programs
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