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Because of the problem of rollovers in suvs, in 2005 Congress passed a transportation bill that requires the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to establish standards to reduce vehicle rollover crashes for suvs and other passenger cars. . . For help in choosing and installing the — right car seat for your child, go to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Web site at www.chop.edu. Click on "Specialties and Services" under "Patient Care and Family Services." Partners for Child Passenger Safety can be found under "Programs and Services.

THE MESSAGE FOR PARENTS "The message for parents is that suvs are no safer, and that they should know the importance of ensuring that their children are properly restrained for their age on every trip in the car," Durbin adds. Because suvs are no safer than passenger cars, the focus of child safety in all vehicles should be on safe seating, Dinh-Zarr says. "No matter what vehicle you transport your children in, keep them in the back seat and properly restrain them in age-appropriate seat-belts," she advises.

World's first high-speed all-electric sport utility truck to be launched by Phoenix Motorcars Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It is an early leader in the mass production of full-function, green electric trucks and suvs for commercial fleet use." The trucks can drive roughly 130 miles before needing to recharge, but the company is currently working on an expansion pack that would extend the range to 250 miles. Charge me up! The question on everyone's mind about this vehicle is: how do you charge the battery? It's accomplished with an onboard 6.6kW charger that plugs into a 220V wall socket. The battery operates in cold and hot weather and is expected to last more than 12 years. It only costs about a $3.

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Durbin, MD, MSCE Further, when rollover accidents occurred, the children who weren't appropriately restrained in suvs had a 25 times greater risk of injury compared with children who were appropriately restrained. Nearly half of these unrestrained children were seriously injured, compared with only 3% of the children who were properly restrained. PERCEPTION VS. REALITY The study findings are important, Durbin says, because although passenger cars are still the vehicle of choice for most families—61.8% of the children in the study were in passenger cars compared with 38.

Durbin, an emergency room doctor at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and his colleagues found that rollovers occurred twice as frequently in suvs as in passenger cars, and that children involved in rollover crashes were three times more likely to be injured than children involved in crashes in which the vehicle did not roll over. Many people assume the weight and size of an SUV make them safer, but the potential benefits are canceled by the increased likelihood of rolling over. Dennis R.

Because suvs are no safer than passenger cars, the focus of child safety in all vehicles should be on safe seating, Dinh-Zarr says. "No matter what vehicle you transport your children in, keep them in the back seat and properly restrain them in age-appropriate seat-belts," she advises. Durbin says motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death in children, and with 1.5 million children in car crashes every year, "it is a significant public health problem." Safe Seating Recommendations Among the recommendations for safe seating in a vehicle are...

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The politeness I had experienced vanished in a sea of aggressive suvs and BMWs. Although drivers in some cities, such as New York and Los Angeles, are known for their aggressive habits, the same patterns began to appear in small towns and cities throughout the country. Drivers' muttering under their breath morphed into shouts, obscene gestures, road rage, and freeway shootings. The problem is not only with driving habits. There has been an epidemic of what I call "pissy mood syndrome." All too many people are in an irritable mood much of the time. How Many People Have Bad Moods?

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United States, which would thus prevent fuel-inefficient suvs and many other American cars from being imported into China. Those Chinese standards are similar to those originated in the European Union. The Chinese have their own booming car business, so it is unlikely they would ever want to import any of ours in any case, but the alignment of European and Chinese emission regulations is a telling detail in the larger picture of how, in the struggle for influence in the great green playing field of China, the United States is being outpaced by the European Union.

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Yes, such activities appear in the midst of commercials for Hummers and suvs, but those are dropping faster than lead balloons. The environment is no longer a niche issue of radical chic, but a matter of broadly understood importance. Those of us who indict past failures have a duty to develop new solutions. My parents, Brigadier General (retired) Harry B. Davis and Jean Langer Davis, shown at West Point, New York, three weeks before my father died of multiple myeloma in 1984. Epilogue Mother's Last "What's the matter with her?" "There's nothing the matter with her. She's dying.

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Meantime, GM and Ford are also bleeding uncontrollably as sales of their cash-cow suvs lag, and nobody wants to spend money on gas guzzlers. No wonder their stocks and bonds are rated junk status by Moody's.3 The biggest joke is when I see some sap in his Hummer. Sales for the Hummer are going down in flames. California's Austrian-born governor Arnold Schwarzenegger first popularized the Hummer. I hope he has buyer's remorse. These days I can't stand seeing them on the road. All I can think about are our less than optimally equipped troops in Iraq who're being blown up in their Hummers.

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If your local car dealer has too many sport-utility vehicles on the lot, she either lowers the price or sends them to another dealer in an area where there's more demand for suvs. If developers build too many apartments or charge too much for them, the apartments sit empty. If there are too many maid services in town, they must drop their prices in order to find new customers who were previously unwilling to pay for a maid at the higher price.

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Because it removes their guilt for driving suvs, eating meat products and spraying pesticides on their lawns. Somehow, buying a little corn ethanol and a few packages of paper plates puts it all back into balance for these people -- folks who live remarkably unsustainable lifestyles that would require five Earths to support if everyone lived that way. Simply eating meat products is so destructive to the environment that you could actually do more to reduce global warming by going vegetarian than by ditching your car.

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The Lonely American's one nod towards any participation or even awareness of a larger, communal, national life is the placement of a yellow ribbon decal, in honor of the troops in Iraq, on the suvs bumper, or a bumper sticker that makes some general statement about "freedom" and "liberty." Otherwise, he is curiously buffered from the pressing causes of the day—save for his bumper sticker, it's as if a war doesn't exist, and no one seems to care or notice that, for example, the rich keep getting richer and the poor poorer.

In fact the SUV story and SSRI story have remarkable similarities: both grew into iconic products of their age, and both represent in their respective industries the most extraordinary kind of overkill, or what marketers call "overperformance," the gap, or disconnect, between a product's maximal capabilities and what is needed for everyday, real-world use.8 suvs may well be able to pull three tons up the Himalayas, but most people need them only to get to Wal-Mart at three in the afternoon.

In this regard, SSRIs and suvs, along with other distinctly American technologies like cell phones and fast food, are all the same: useful when you really need them but mainly unnecessary and vastly and indiscriminately overused.

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The coincidence in timing—between a medical community turning a blind eye to a mysterious, growing set of diseases with an unknown set of triggers and a society's rapid swell in production of everything from suvs to Teflon pans to furniture stuffed with flame-retardant foam—would turn out to be an ominous one, altering the well-being of millions of Americans. Together, these two seemingly unrelated trends would set in place two of the key factors that would establish a "perfect storm" enabling an autoimmune epidemic to gather force and take hold.

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Ford sold 3,569 Escape hybrid suvs during the quarter. Sales are going to escalate from here, and then branch out into a number of diversely fueled types of vehicles. But we also have to be aware of diluting the environmental integrity of the product. Today's hybrids have sacrificed miles per gallon for performance. The old hybrids demonstrated superior mpg. In December 1999, when Honda introduced the Insight with its "aerodynamic teardrop shape," it received a 70 mpg rating.8 But newer models, like the Escape, obtain from 29 to 33 mpg (its nonhybrid counterpart gets around 19 to 22 mpg).

The new reality that began to emerge in 2005, however, "really hurt everybody who was making the big bucks selling suvs," said Mary Anne Wright, director of Sustainable Mobility Technologies and Hybrid Vehicle Programs at Ford. (Wright, who left in November 2005, to be replaced by Nancy Gioia, was responsible for all present and future hybrid, fuel cell, and alternative fuel technology development. Wright had assumed her position only in April 2004 and reported jointly to Product Creation and Research and Advanced Engineering.

In the late 1990s, we were riding high, selling suvs by the trainload. All that money coming in. . . . But I doubt we will ever see twenty-five dollar barrels of oil again. The price is more likely to reach one hundred dollars before twenty-five. But Bill Ford is behind us. Totally committed. We have to be here and be profitable and be conscious of the new carbon-neutral reality. If we aren't, we are not going to thrive as a car company. We will lose ground.

At GM, we've launched a hybrid program that is focused on the highest-fuel-consuming vehicles such as mass transit buses, full-size trucks and suvs. We are helping to preserve the environment, one city at a time."21 The technology in these buses has served as the starting point for GM's codevelopment with DaimlerChrysler and BMW of a two-mode hybrid system that GM will launch first in the Chevrolet Tahoe and GMC Yukon in 2 0 07.22 I'm glad to see GM in the game. It's late, though. Innovations also have to be made in design and materials.

However, since that time, we've actually worsened our fuel consumption habits by buying bigger cars like the suvs. Here's how much oil improvements in fuel efficiency will save Americans (while also cutting billions of tons of global warming pollution), according to the NRDC:24 A 40-mpg standard would save more than 50 billion barrels over the next 50 years, more than 15 times the likely yield of economically recoverable oil from the Arctic Refuge. A 55-mpg standard would save more than 20 times the Arctic Refuge's likely yield.

Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer Shannon Brownlee See book keywords and concepts

If medicine did obey the rules of supply and demand in the same way as other goods and services, like suvs or housecleaning, catheterization labs would sit unused when the number of labs in town exceeded the number of people in the population who really needed angioplasty or stents. If a hospital's lab sat empty too often, the hospital would need to shut it down, or lower the price of an angiogram to lure patients away from competing hospitals. But that's not what happens in health care.

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Of course, Chevy didn't specify that suggestions had to promote the Tahoe, which gave culture jammers a prime opportunity to use the company's own platform to soapbox about global warming and the other environmental woes suvs contribute to. Culture jamming in general, and online efforts in particular, catalyze outreach and solidarity among consumers, two necessary (though not sufficient in and of themselves) ingredients for a successful movement.

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Yet many yuppie progressive "greens" are the ones who drove their suvs to environmental rallies and, even worse, made their homes at the far exurban fringe, requiring massive car dependence in their daily lives. The epitome of this attitude was Amory B. Lovins, head of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who devoted his organization's time and energy in the 1990s to the development of a high-mileage "hypercar" that would have only promoted the unhelpful idea that Americans can continue to lead urban lives in the rural setting.

One family in my neighborhood had a sign in their yard that said "War Is Not the Answer" —and had two suvs parked in the driveway. The American public, including the educated minority, seemed eerily clueless about the connection between their own living arrangements and our problems overseas. No End of Trouble As insurgency raged in and around Baghdad through 2004, Iran resumed its work on nuclear development, despite the presence of the U.S. military next door, perhaps in defiance of it like the Iraqi insurgents.

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They claim their UltraSPARC Ti gives the best performance-per-watt of any CPU on the market, and said in a 2005 press release that if just half of their entry-level servers from the last three years had been UltraSPARC Tis, the impact would be equivalent to pulling a million suvs off the road. The computer of the future will be clean and green Manufacturing a computer generates a tremendous amount of waste, some of it hazardous. Over the last few years, companies like VIA and NEC have removed lead from their fabrication process—but this can be pushed even further.

And we can choose not to buy suvs. When it comes to conserving fuel, it's not just what you drive, it's how you drive it. Abiding by the following tips will help you conserve: ¦ Avoid idling. If you need to warm up your engine on cold winter days, keep idling time to less than thirty seconds. ¦ Drive slower. When Congress imposed the 5 5 mile (88.5 kilometer) per hour speed limit in response to an earlier oil crisis, the result was an estimated 2.5 billion gallons (roughly 9.5 billion liters) of gasoline and diesel conserved in 1983 alone, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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To today's debt-ridden yuppie spenders, "hard times" means shuffling six different credit card accounts to cover the payments on an overpriced house, two new suvs in the driveway and a vacation to Paris, none of which the yuppie couple can afford. The idea of ever having to pay back their debt and live within their means is as foreign to most Americans as it is their own government. Financial consequences have been put off so habitually, for so long, that people forget they even exist. And thus the reality awakening becomes ever more rude when it finally appears.

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A China of suvs, suburbs, and careless consumption would be a planetary ecological nightmare and would very quickly become a Chinese tragedy. Nowhere is the conclusion of the 2002 Jo'burg Memo (a report compiled by leading thinkers from around the world for the World Summit on Sustainable Development) more true: "There is no escape from the conclusion that the world's growing population cannot attain a Western standard of living by following conventional paths to development. The resources required are too vast, too expensive, and too damaging to local and global ecosystems.

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