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26-28	August 2008 Readings/Article I got a Taliban, bro SEE ALSO: Mohamed, Ahmed; Taylor, Andy; Career as traffic police; Blakely, James; South Carolina; Traffic police; Transportation; Trials, litigation, etc.; War on Terrorism, 2001-; Megahed, Youssef PDF IMAGES
26	June 2007 Readings/Article Everybody's got something to hide SEE ALSO: Airports; Monkeys; Security measures; Transportation PDF IMAGES
16	February 1998 Readings/Article The U.N. strikes again By Palaver SEE ALSO: Aircraft accidents; Transportation; Uganda; United Nations PDF IMAGES
36-38	December 1987 Readings/Article Miami to New York: Drop dead By Dave Barry SEE ALSO: Barry, Dave; Journeys—New York (State)—New York—Humor; Transportation PDF IMAGES
25	June 1984 Readings/Article Pecking order SEE ALSO: Officials and employees; -Statistics; Transportation PDF IMAGES
78-86	December 1973 Article Trains into flowers By Barry Commoner SEE ALSO: Environmental aspects; Railroad companies; Railroads and state; Transportation PDF IMAGES
6-7	April 1973 Wraparound/Article Reports By Bill Pride SEE ALSO: Bus lines; Colorado; Denver; Transportation PDF IMAGES
105	January 1973 Wraparound/Article A vagabond special SEE ALSO: Bus travel; Fares; Transportation PDF IMAGES
105	January 1973 Wraparound/Article Amtrak, take a hint SEE ALSO: Fares; Transportation PDF IMAGES
22-26	August 1972 Article In praise of trains By Lewis Mumford SEE ALSO: Passenger traffic; Transportation PDF IMAGES
67-74	June 1960 Article How to rescue New York from its Port Authority By Edward T. Chase SEE ALSO: Commuting traffic; Fares; New York Metropolitan Area; Subways; Traffic congestion; Transportation; Transportation and state PDF IMAGES
31-36	November 1958 Article Unsnarling traffic: On the roads, rails, and airways By John I. Snyder SEE ALSO: Aircraft accidents; Passenger traffic; Traffic congestion; Transportation PDF IMAGES
44	January 1958 Article Hidden treasures in darkest Hoboken By David Eli Lilienthal SEE ALSO: Sengier, Edgar; Hoboken; Knowledge—Uranium industry; Transportation; Uranium PDF IMAGES
29-35	September 1957 Article The coming battle of the St. Lawrence: What the seaway will do to New York . . . what Chicago and the Midwest will fight for . . . the potential conflict with Canada . . . By Marvin J. Barloon SEE ALSO: Freight; Great Lakes Region; Inland navigation; Inland water transportation; North America; Transportation PDF IMAGES
37-43	March 1957 Article The second transport revolution By Marvin J. Barloon SEE ALSO: Express highways; Freight; Inland water transportation; Piggyback transportation; Transportation; Trucking PDF IMAGES
81-82	September 1956 After hours/Article Grease my wheels By Agnes Allen SEE ALSO: Air travel; Public Relations; Transportation PDF IMAGES
52-59	June 1955 Article America's next twenty years: Part IV. Eleven coming issues in politics By Peter Ferdinand Drucker SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Civil Rights; Conservation of natural resources; Housing; Industrial relations; Inflation (Finance); Migration, Internal; Population; Power resources; Transportation PDF IMAGES
10-15	February 1955 The easy chair/Article Service in four-color gravure By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Air travel; Hotels; Public Relations; Transportation; Travel etiquette PDF IMAGES
126-132	January 1945 Article Trucks and trains in battle: The story of the transportation corps in France By Irwin Ross SEE ALSO: Transportation; Transportation, Military PDF IMAGES
42-49	June 1943 Article The great crops move By Charles Morrow Wilson SEE ALSO: Agricultural innovations; Agriculture; Farm produce; International cooperation; Transportation PDF IMAGES
83-93	June 1915 Article Herdsmen of the deep By William Harnden Foster SEE ALSO: Cargo ships; Cattle; Exports; Herders; North Atlantic Ocean; Passenger traffic; Transatlantic voyages; Transportation PDF IMAGES
816	April 1907 Editor's drawer/Article A careless traveler SEE ALSO: African American men; Mules; Transportation PDF IMAGES
771-778	October 1893 Article Riders of Syria By Theodore Ayrault Dodge SEE ALSO: Arabian horse; Bedouins; Camels; Horsemanship; Horsemen and horsewomen; Syria; Transportation PDF IMAGES
626-635	September 1893 Article Riders of Egypt By Theodore Ayrault Dodge SEE ALSO: Arabian horse; Camels; Donkeys; Egypt; Horsemanship; Libyan Desert; Transportation PDF IMAGES
406-414	August 1893 Article Riders of Tunis By Theodore Ayrault Dodge SEE ALSO: Arabian horse; Bedouins; Camels; Costume; Horsemanship; Transportation; Tunisia PDF IMAGES
685-702	April 1892 Article “Brother to the sea” By Julian Ralph SEE ALSO: Fishing; Great Lakes Region; Sault Sainte Marie Canal (Mich.); Superior, Lake; Transportation PDF IMAGES
576-588	March 1892 Article The capitals of the Northwest By Julian Ralph SEE ALSO: Agriculture; Cities and towns; Crossings; Growth; Minneapolis; Minneapolis (Minn.); Minnesota; Northwestern States; Saint Paul (Minn.); Transportation PDF IMAGES
500-515	September 1884 Article Wheat fields of the Columbia By Ernest Ingersoll SEE ALSO: Agriculture; Land use; Transportation PDF IMAGES
266-273	July 1884 Article Approaches to New York By Alexander Wainwright SEE ALSO: Transportation; Waterways PDF IMAGES
614-622	September 1877 Article A railroad study By Edward Howland SEE ALSO: Railroad companies; Transportation PDF IMAGES
546-557	March 1877 Article A summer cruise among the Atlantic islands. I.—The Azores. II.—The Madeiras By Albert Leary Gihon SEE ALSO: Azores; Emigration and immigration; Madeira Islands; Transportation; Wine and wine making PDF IMAGES
917	November 1875 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Hoar, E.R. (Ebenezer Rockwood); Humor; Pets; Transportation PDF IMAGES
612-613	March 1875 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Animal welfare; Cattle; Québec (Province); Transportation PDF IMAGES
555-568	September 1874 Article The new South. III.—Commerce and navigation By Edwin De Leon SEE ALSO: Commerce; Cotton trade; Navigation; Reconstruction; Transportation PDF IMAGES
796-797	October 1873 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Fares; Nashville; River steamers; Transportation PDF IMAGES
161-173	January 1873 Article Locomotion—past and present By S.S. Conant SEE ALSO: Coaching; Sedan chairs; Sleds; Transportation; Velocipedes PDF IMAGES
282-283	July 1859 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Fares; Privileges and immunities, Ecclesiastical; River steamers; Transportation PDF IMAGES
	March 1859 Article Mr. Sharply again SEE ALSO: Public interest; Transportation PDF IMAGES
577-593	October 1857 Article The ship of the desert SEE ALSO: Anatomy; Camels; Transportation; War use PDF IMAGES
134	June 1852 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: The Middle East; Transportation PDF IMAGES

98	February 1974 Wraparound/Review Tote that plywood SEE ALSO: Plywood; Tote bags; Transportation PDF IMAGES

Oct 2006	Energy, in megawatt hours, saved over thirty-five years by a bicycle rider who does not drive a car: 109 Portion of these savings that will be used up over the extra years the biker will live: 9/10	Harper's Index Source: Karl T. Ulrich, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
Jul 2006	Factor by which Hummer sales in April exceeded those a year earlier: 3	Harper's Index Source: General Motors Corporation (Detroit)
Jun 2006	Chances that a U.S. commuter both lives and works in a suburb: 2 in 5	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Mar 2006	Amount paid last fall for a Ford Escort driven by Pope John Paul II: $680,000	Harper's Index Source: Kruse International (Auburn, Ind.)
Jan 2006	Percentage of the air-ambulance helicopters in the U.S. that have crashed since 2000: 10	Harper's Index Source: Alan Levin, USA Today (Washington)
Dec 2005	Amount a German company says it can save a cargo ship in annual fuel costs by outfitting it with a giant kite: $1,200,000	Harper's Index Source: SkySails (Hamburg, Germany)
Nov 2005	Minimum number of infants impeded from boarding airplanes because their names were on the U.S. no-fly list: 14	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Aug 2005	Number of corpses shipped on Delta Air Lines last year : 42,175	Harper's Index Source: Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)
Aug 2005	Amount that Northwest Airlines expects to save each year by eliminating free magazines on flights : $565,000	Harper's Index Source: Northwest Airlines (Minneapolis)
Jul 2005	Tons of CO2 produced each year by a single jumbo jet making a round-trip trans-Atlantic flight daily: 210,000	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Jul 2005	Percentage of U.S. auto travel that occurs on two-lane roads: 28	Harper's Index Source: The Road Information Program (Washington)
Jul 2005	Percentage of traffic fatalities that occur on two-lane roads in the U.S.: 52	Harper's Index Source: The Road Information Program (Washington)
Jul 2005	Price for a set of six Harley Davidson‒brand votive candles: $19.95	Harper's Index Source: Spirit Harley-Davidson, Inc. (Glenshaw, Pa)
Jun 2005	Percentage of Americans who say that driving a fuel-efficient car is an act of patriotism: 66	Harper's Index Source: Civil Society Institute (Newton Centre, Mass.)
Jun 2005	Portion of the world's motor vehicles that are in China: 1/17	Harper's Index Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development (Geneva)
Feb 2005	Estimated percentage by which the number of automobiles made in Ontario last year exceeded the number made in Detroit: 4	Harper's Index Source: Ward's Communications (Southfield, Mich.)
Feb 2005	Average total cost for a U.S. eighty-year-old to live out the rest of his or her days on a luxury cruise ship: $230,497	Harper's Index Source: Lee Lindquist, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (Chicago)
Oct 2004	Percentage of Mississippians who have failed their written driver’s-license test since it became computerized last year : 60	Harper's Index Source: Automated Drivers License Testing System (Jackson, Miss.)
Jun 2004	Number of accidents on Florida highways in 2002 caused by cars parked on the side of the road : 4,220	Harper's Index Source: Florida Highway Patrol (Jacksonville)
Jun 2004	Ratio of the average number of vehicles to the number of children per U.S. household : 5:2	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Washington)
Jun 2004	Average number of people who die every day in Bombay commuter-train accidents : 10	Harper's Index Source: Manavta Railway Accident Response Centre (Bombay, India)
Mar 2004	Number of times a Hummer H2 could be driven around the world on the excess calories Americans consume each year : 244	Harper's Index Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta)/Food and Drug Administration (Rockville, Md.)/Harper's research
Nov 2003	Square feet of Israeli roads under construction in the 1990s per Israeli: 57	Harper's Index Source: Adva Center (Tel Aviv)
Sep 2003	Months after the first manned flight that Wilbur Wright identified "war" as a potential use for airplanes: 22	Harper's Index Source: James E. Tobin (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
Aug 2003	Ratio of the estimated number of people killed worldwide by war last year to the number killed by traffic: 1:4	Harper's Index Source: World Health Organization (Geneva)
Aug 2003	Percentage of pedestrian fatalities on U.S. roadways last year in which the driver was drunk: 18	Harper's Index
Jul 2003	Amount of the $106,185 price of a Hummer H1 that businesses may deduct under the proposed Bush tax plan: $88,722	Harper's Index Source: The White House (Washington)/Harper's research
Dec 2002	Minutes that service on two New York subway lines was halted this fall after a Sikh worker was seen emerging from a hatch: 92	Harper's Index Source: Metropolitan Transit Authority (N.Y.C.)
Oct 2002	Number of traffic tickets issued in July by British Columbia police officers posing as squeegee men: 90	Harper's Index Source: Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Burnaby, B.C.)
Aug 2002	Average amount by which the price a black American pays for a new car exceeds that paid by a white for the same model: $420	Harper's Index Source: Yale School of Management (New Haven, Conn.)
Aug 2002	Number of round-trips to the sun represented by the world's outstanding frequent-flyer miles: 42,500	Harper's Index Source: Harper's research/Frequent Flyer Services (Colorado Springs)
Jan 2002	Year in which the Army released bacteria into New York City's subway system: 1966	Harper's Index Source: "Biological testing involving human subjects by the Department of Defense," transcript of U.S. Senate hearings, 3/8/77 and 5/23/77
Nov 2001	Rank of gas mileage among the 35 things Americans say they look for in buying a new car or truck: 20	Harper's Index Source: Maritz Marketing Research (St. Louis)/Ford Motor Company (Detroit)
Nov 2001	Age, in months, at which an infant can distinguish between a bird and an airplane: 9	Harper's Index Source: Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego.
Jul 2001	Estimated cost of fuel consumed in 1999 by U.S. drivers caught in traffic delays: $8,600,000,000	Harper's Index Source: Texas Transportation Institute (College Station)
Apr 2001	Gallons by which daily U.S. oil consumption would drop if SUVs' average fuel efficiency increased by 3 mpg: 49,000,000	Harper's Index Source: Sierra Club (Washington)
Dec 2000	Pounds of ordnance that can be delivered by Boeing's new X-45A, the world's first unmanned fighter jet: 3,000	Harper's Index Source: The Boeing Company (Seattle)
Dec 2000	Number of planes crashed by the Wright brothers before their first successful flight on December 17, 1903: 1	Harper's Index Source: Wright Brothers National Memorial (Kill Devil Hills, N.C.)
Nov 2000	Percentage change since last May in the number of injuries caused by foot-powered scooters in the United States: +700	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (Bethesda, Md.)
Nov 2000	Percentage of Americans killed by faulty auto parts in the 1990s who were killed by Firestone tires: 0.1	Harper's Index Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (Washington)
Nov 2000	Average annual number of traffic accidents in Iowa caused by low visibility due to corn stalks: 65	Harper's Index Source: Iowa Department of Transportation (Ames)/Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Oct 2000	Average number of miles by which the Concorde flies closer to the sun than other passenger planes: 4.7	Harper's Index Source: British Airways (London)
May 2000	Rank of traffic accidents among the leading causes of death for on-duty U.S. police officers last year: 1	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of Justice/Federal Bureau of Investigation
Mar 2000	Number of states that introduced legislation forbidding discrimination against motorcylists last year: 8	Harper's Index Source: American Motorcyclist Association (Westerville, Ohio)
Mar 2000	Number of people in North Carolina killed by automobiles since 1998 after lying in the middle of the road: 66	Harper's Index Source: Highway Safety Research Center, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Feb 2000	Percentage increase since 1994 in annual federal spending on highways and mass transit, respectively: 50, 33	Harper's Index Source: Department of Transportation (Washington)
Feb 2000	Ratio of the number of Americans killed in traffic accidents in 1998 to the number killed by medical errors: 1:1	Harper's Index Source: Institute of Medicine (Washington);
Feb 2000	Hours during which Rio de Janeiro drivers may legally run red lights in order to avoid being carjacked: 10 P.M.-5 A.M.	Harper's Index Source: Embassy of Brazil (Washington)
Jan 2000	Miles that Leif Eriksson sailed from his father's home in Greenland before “discovering” North America in 985: 230	Harper's Index Source: James Reston Jr., The Last Apocalypse: Europe at the Year 1000 A.D., Random House (N.Y.C.)
Jan 2000	Number of the ten largest multinational corporations that produce automobiles or gasoline: 9	Harper's Index Source: Multinational Monitor (Washington)
Dec 1999	Number of titles for “horseless carriages” issued to new car owners in Maine last spring due to a Y2K error: 2,000	Harper's Index Source: Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles (Augusta, Maine)
Oct 1999	Number of tires found along the Mississippi River since 1997 by an Illinois man bent on cleaning it: 1,916	Harper's Index Source: Mississippi Beautification and Restoration Project (East Moline, Ill.)
Sep 1999	Hours of helicopter lessons required for the new “Super Butler” degree at London's most expensive butler school: 60	Harper's Index Source: Ivor Spencer International School (London)
Jul 1999	Number of voice commands a Jaguar S-Type sedan understands: 44	Harper's Index Source: Jaguar North America (Mahwah, N.J.)
Jun 1999	Miles of U.S. highway that the Ku Klux Klan has applied to sponsor under state adopt-a-highway programs: 16.5	Harper's Index Source: Harper's research/Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department (Little Rock)
Jun 1999	Percentage change since 1990 in the number of U.S. traffic disputes in which one driver kills or injures another: +59	Harper's Index Source: AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety (Washington)
Jun 1999	Rank of Atlanta among U.S. cities in the number of miles driven per capita: 1	Harper's Index Source: Atlanta Regional Commission (Atlanta)
Apr 1999	Number of the Pentagon's 9 Stealth bombers that have ever been deployed in combat: 0	Harper's Index Source: Whiteman Air Force Base (Mo.)
Apr 1999	Number of federally maintained bridges of which the Department of Transportation has no record: 4,770	Harper's Index Source: Department of Transportation Semiannual Report to Congress
Sep 1998	Ratio of miles of logging and other roads in U.S. national forests to the total length of the interstate highway system: 8:1	Harper's Index Source: National Forest Service (Denver)
Sep 1998	Number of air-traffic controllers ordered to take a two-hour “refresher” course last spring: 10,000	Harper's Index Source: Federal Aviation Administration (Washington)
Sep 1998	Number of times last June that air-traffic controllers lost track of the altitude or speed of Air Force I or II: 4	Harper's Index Source: Federal Aviation Administration (Washington)
Aug 1998	Chance that an American fell asleep at the wheel last year: 1 in 4	Harper's Index Source: National Sleep Foundation (Washington)
Aug 1998	Chance that a Detroit household has no access to a car: 1 in 3	Harper's Index Source: Detroit Department of Transportation
Aug 1998	Rank of Detroit, among the 20 largest U.S. cities, in municipal spending on public transportation: 20	Harper's Index Source: Detroit Department of Transportation
Aug 1998	Minimum number of times per year that a car's engine should be steam-cleaned, according to Martha Stewart: 1	Harper's Index Source: Martha Stewart Living (Westport, Conn.)
Aug 1998	Fuel mileage of the QEII , in feet per gallon: 29	Harper's Index Source: Cunard Lines (N.Y.C.)
Aug 1998	Ratio of highway spending Congress passed last May to the cost of gold-plating one lane of the U.S. interstate system: 2:1	Harper's Index Source: Scott Hodge (Alexandria, Va.)/Technic, Inc. (Cranston, R.I.)
Jul 1998	Ratio of pollution generated by a leaf blower in one hour to that generated by driving a car one hundred miles: 1:1	Harper's Index Source: Environmental Protection Agency
Jun 1998	Number of cars broken into by bears last year at Yosemite National Park: 889	Harper's Index Source: Yosemite National Park (Yosemite, Calif.)
May 1998	Cubic feet in the Navy's F-18 Super Hornet jet that have been set aside for computer systems not yet developed: 17	Harper's Index Source: Navy Press Office (Washington)
May 1998	Percentage of Ford Explorer owners who have never taken their vehicle off-road: 87	Harper's Index Source: Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, Mich.)
May 1998	Number of consecutive hours that a Maryland man spent kissing a motorboat last winter in order to win it in a contest: 59	Harper's Index Source: Royal Productions (Richmond, Va.)

November 8, 2008	General Motors warned that it would run out of cash early next year without a merger or a government bail-out.	Weekly Review By Christopher R. Beha Source: We'll go bust without bail-out of merger, says General Motors
September 26, 2008	A man flew across the English Channel using a homemade jet-propelled wing.	Weekly Review By Genevieve Smith Source: CNN
September 19, 2008	At a Ford factory in Macomb County, Michigan, Senator Joe Biden jumped in a red Mustang convertible and revved the engine. “I like muscle cars,” he said, as factory workers whooped. ”I tell you, man, this is nice."	Weekly Review By Sam Stark Source 1: Newsweek Source 2: The New York Times
September 14, 2008	At least 25 people were killed and another 140 injured when a Metrolink commuter train crashed head-on into a freight train in the San Fernando Valley.	Weekly Review By Christopher R. Beha Source: Los Angeles Times
August 29, 2008	Hip-hop mogul P. Diddy announced that the rising price of fuel had forced him to give up private-jet travel. “Can you believe this, I'm actually flying commercial!” he said. “Gas prices are too motherfuckin' high. I want to give a shout-out to all my Saudi Arabian brothers and sisters and all my brothers and sisters from all the countries that have oil. If y'all could please send me some oil for my jet, I would truly appreciate it.”	Weekly Review By Gemma Sieff Source: E!Online
October 29, 2007	A Scottish man was placed on a sex offenders registry for raping a bicycle.	Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez Source: The Telegraph
September 23, 2007	General Motors workers went on strike.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: BBC News
August 29, 2007	U.S. transportation horticulturalists were seeding the nation's roadsides with asters, amsonia, and flowering white thoroughwort, among other wildflowers.	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross Source: NY Times
August 21, 2007	Vacationers aboard a Taiwanese airliner in Okinawa slid down escape chutes and sprinted to safety moments before the plane exploded. “I ran so hard,” one passenger said, “my sock tore.”	Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez Source: Washington Post
July 7, 2007	Al Gore Jr. was arrested for possessing both pills and pot after he was pulled over for driving 100mph in his hybrid car. At Gore's father's 24-hour, seven-continent Live Earth concert for the environment, Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon addressed the crowd. “Everyone who did not arrive on a private jet,” he said, “put your hands in the air.” Le Bon then put his hand in the air.	Weekly Review By Chantal Clarke Source 1: Reuters Source 2: NME
May 21, 2007	For the first time since the Korean War a train traveled between North and South Korea and a North Korean cargo ship docked in a South Korean port.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: ABC Radio Australia
April 17, 2007	A report detailing the effects of global warming in North America predicted the end of “a reliable snowmobile season” by mid-century.	Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez Source: Washington Post
March 30, 2007	In Germany, a black Australian swan named Petra was in love with a paddleboat.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: Ananova
March 24, 2007	Taiwan's freeway bureau closed 600 yards of highway in Yunlin County in preparation for a massive migration of milkweed butterflies.	Weekly Review By Miriam Markowitz Source: AP via Yahoo! News
February 8, 2007	Sinkholes were endangering the nation's roads.	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross Source: NY Times
February 1, 2007	Elephants in Thailand were head-butting and robbing trucks.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: Reuters via iol.co.za
January 26, 2007	Ford posted a loss of $12.7 billion for 2006, the largest in its 103-year history, and equivalent to the GDP of Jordan. Asked about his plans for the company, CEO Alan R. Mulally said, “At the top of the list, I would put dealing with reality.”	Weekly Review By Sam Stark Source 1: USA Today Source 2: NYT
December 13, 2006	The governor of Alaska announced she would sell a private jet that had been used for state business on eBay.	Weekly Review By Gemma Sieff Source: Bloomberg
December 13, 2006	Federal investigators announced that airline pilots should follow procedures to make sure their airplanes take off on the right runway.	Weekly Review By Gemma Sieff Source: NYT
December 10, 2006	Seattle-Tacoma International Airport removed fourteen Christmas trees after a local rabbi threatened a lawsuit if officials did not add an eight-foot menorah to the arrangement.	Weekly Review By Gemma Sieff Source: Seattle Times
December 5, 2006	A plane bound for Texas made an emergency landing after a female passenger lit matches to mask the odor of her fart.	Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez Source: WKMG Local News
November 6, 2006	Officials in Sydney, Australia, refused to allow a cargo ship to dock until a rogue monkey on board was captured or killed; the ship's crew later said that the monkey--a “small brown blur”--had probably been blown overboard during a typhoon.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source 1: The Age Source 2: SMH.com.au
October 25, 2006	Daimler Chrysler also lost $1.5 billion during the same time period.	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross Source: New York Times
October 25, 2006	Scientists concluded that fat people lower the fuel efficiency of automobiles.	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross Source: Local6.com
October 24, 2006	Ford Motor Company announced $7.6 billion in third quarter losses.	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross Source: Sydney Morning Herald
October 11, 2006	Two trains collided while traveling in opposite directions between the French city of Nancy and the grand duchy of Luxembourg, killing six people.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: AFX via Hemscott.com
September 25, 2006	A Mitsubishi dealership in Columbus, Ohio, withdrew a radio ad proclaiming “jihad” on the U.S. auto market.	Weekly Review By Miriam Markowitz Source: Reuters via Yahoo! News
September 14, 2006	Chicago prosecutors dropped all charges against a man who, after security guards mistook his penis pump for a bomb, was detained at O'Hare International Airport. “Humiliation aside,” said the man's attorney, “the system worked.”	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: MSNBC
September 5, 2006	An Orthodox Jewish man was removed from an Air Canada flight because his praying made other passengers nervous.	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross Source: CBC
August 30, 2006	A woman in Hohhot, China, crashed her car into another vehicle while allowing her dog to drive.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: Guardian
August 24, 2006	A Northwest Airlines flight out of Amsterdam landed twenty minutes after takeoff when several passengers were observed exchanging cell phones and unbuckling their seat belts.	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross Source: New York Times
August 10, 2006	Under pressure from U.S. officials, authorities in the United Kingdom announced the discovery of a terrorist plot to blow up as many as ten passenger planes in the air, possibly by using explosive liquids hidden inside sports-drink bottles. Twenty-one suspects were arrested. Britain raised its threat level to “critical”; the United States raised its threat level “for all commercial flights flying from the United Kingdom to the United States” to “red.” Carry-on luggage was banned on flights in and out of Heathrow airport, and classical and traditional musicians, who normally keep their fragile instruments with them while traveling, were forced to check them as baggage and risk damage. “These restrictions,” said a cellist, “are a disaster for me.” Bagpipers planning to attend the World Pipe Band Championships were particularly worried about the effects of the ban. Prime Minister Tony Blair, on vacation in the Caribbean, thanked U.K. security services for their “hard work,” and President George W. Bush, who had been monitoring the progress of the investigation while on vacation in Crawford, Texas (where he was reading The Stranger, by Albert Camus), flew to Wisconsin and called the arrests “a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists.”	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source 1: The New York Times Source 2: BBC News
August 2, 2006	In New Delhi, the commuter rail authority was using a black-faced langur monkey to frighten other monkeys.	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross Source: BBC
July 19, 2006	One thousand Americans were evacuated from Beirut aboard a 38-year-old cruise ship named the Orient Queen.	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross Source 1: BBC via Google News Source 2: Washington Post and Cruises.about.com
July 10, 2006	Airliners crashed in Russia and Pakistan, killing hundreds.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: Associated Press
July 3, 2006	A subway derailment near Jesus station in Valencia, Spain, killed 34 people.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source 1: Washington Post Source 2: 680 News Source 3: Scotsman Source 4: Scotsman
June 27, 2006	Rush Limbaugh was detained at an airport when authorities found Viagra in his luggage.

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