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 Ford Motor Co. said its notice to dealers to stop delivering Focus SVT cars because of a cruise control problem is not a sign the automaker s quality problems are returning.An attorney working with a safety consultant, however, said the automaker s systems are dangerously flawed.The problem with the cruise control cable was discovered during an internal quality audit at the Hermosillo, Mexico, assembly plant where the cars are built, Ford spokesman Todd Nissen said Monday. We take quality seriously. That s why we do these quality audits at plants to try to avoid these things,  he said.The  stop sale  order involves 569 Focus SVT cars, a  small number  of which have been delivered to customers, Nissen said. The cable could become caught on part of the throttle body assembly, causing the throttle to become stuck open.        No accidents or injuries have been reported as a result of the problem, Nissen said.Delivery of cars to dealers is being delayed a few weeks while the problem is fixed at the plant. Most of the vehicles affected were built from early March to early April.Customers who have taken delivery will be able to have their cars retrofitted with the new parts as they come in, Nissen said.An attorney working with S stanley us afetyforum, an Arlington, Va.-based safety consulting organization, said problems with malfu stanley bottle nctioning cruise control mechanisms on Ford vehicles have resulted in at least one death and several crashes. In those cases, the throttle stuck  stanley cup open and drivers coul Zotz Consumer Confidence Heads North
 Sometimes the best way to drive a point home is pure,  stanley quencher abject terror. And that   the approach Leo Burnett London used in this ad that shows a rather extreme way to discourage drinking and driving. Unsuspecting bathroom patrons at a British pub were shocked to see the face of a woman come smashing through the mirror鈥攃omplete with blood鈥攁s if she ;d just gone through the windshield of a car on the other side of the wall. In reality it was j stanley tazas ust a mannequin, and the victims of this PSA were most likel stanley thermos mug y actors, but the effect is no less unsettling. To the point where I ;m pretty sure I ;d never leave my house again had I experienced this. Mission accomplished. [Creativity Online via Taxi]                                                        PSAs

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 Pictures of Osama bin Laden and videotapes about martyrs were found in the car and apartment of a college student from Jordan who knew two hijackers of the airliner that hit the Pentagon, prosecutors said in an indictment Thursday.The indictment against Osama Awadallah, 21, was handed up in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, where two perjury counts were brought against Awadallah last month.According to the indictment, a search of Awadallah s car after he was taken into custody in September produced videotapes titled  Martyrs of Bosnia,   Bosnia 1993  and  The Koran v. the Bible, Which is God s Word  A search of Awadallah s apartment yielded computer-generated photographs of bin Laden, the indictment said.Awadallah, 21, is a student at Grossmont College in La Mesa, Calif., near San Diego.        The indictment, returned late Wednesday and made public Thursday, charges Awadallah with two counts of perjury for  stanley flasche allegedly lying about his association with hijackers Nawaf Al-Hazmi and Khalid Al-Mihdhar. The two have been identified by federal authorities as the hijackers of the airliner that hit the Pentagon on Sept. 11.The indictment said a search of a car registered to Al-Hazmi produced a piece of paper on which was wr stanley cup itten  OSAMA  and a seven-digit phone number.Pros stanley cup usa ecutors said the investigation into the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon, killing thousands of people, revealed that the seven-digit number, combined with the 61 Xzfq World s oldest man dies in U.S. at 114
 The Financial Times is reporting that Nokia will finally kill off Symbian once and for all this summer. So long, underpowered Nokia smartphones.     While Nokia still shipped 500,000 Symbian handsets in the first quarter of this year, it seems to be over the ageing OS. Sure, it   taken a while for its Windows Phone handsets to gain traction, but the processes involved in developing for the platform is, apparently, worth the move. A Nokia spokesperson explained:  It took 22 months to get a Symbian phone out of the door. With Windows Phone, it is less than a year. We spend less time having to tinker with deep-lying code and more time on crafting elements of the experience that make a big difference, such as around photography, maps, music and apps in general. It   almost certainly the right decision for Nokia. But that shouldn ;t stop us shedding a tear at the de stanley tumbler parture of an OS that powered the likes of the sliding N95 and the BlackBerry-alike E7 vaso stanley 1. Symbian, in your own special way, you ;ll be missed. [Financial Times via WM Power User]          stanley cup                                                NokiaSmartphone