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Bad penny or guardian angel? It’s tough to be effective through Wally Walker.

“Maybe it’s time we stopped demonizing him?” asked a basketball fan, who watched the former Sonics player and executive testify Friday in the team’s trial.

Through good times and bad times, Walker has been a polarizing figure for the Sonics.

During his testimony in the case of the city trying to force the Sonics to honor the last sum of two units years of their KeyArena lease, it became obvious Walker has remained occupy ago the team forced him to resign in October 2006.

After Sonics chairman Clay Bennett filed for arbitration in an try to weaken the lease and the city filed its suit in law last year, Walker reached out to the incorporated town’s ruler brokers.

He had done this judgment, though the circumstances hadn’t been as portentous. In 2001, then-Sonics owner Barry Ackerley was looking to sell to out-of-town owners before Walker convinced Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to lead a cluster and buy the Sonics and Storm for $200 million.

That’s Walker’s gift: deal-making.

On Oct. 7, 2007, Walker arranged a meeting at his house that included former U.S. Sen. Slade Gorton, Microsoft mogul Steve Ballmer, Seattle real-estate developer Matt Griffin and former Safeco president Mike McGavick.

Each served a key role. Gorton’s enactment not soft, K&L Gates, had recently been hired by the city to unsheathe the sword Bennett legally. Ballmer had the financial resources. Griffin is an architectural whiz. McGavick authored a PowerPoint plan dubbed: “The Sonics Challenge: Why a Poisoned Well Affords a Unique Opportunity.”

And Walker leading one into the other all of the dots. He knew KeyArena and the NBA better than anyone. He since a common thing conversed with Deputy Mayor Tim Ceis and Joel Litvin, the NBA’s president of basketball operations.

Sonics attorneys characterized Walker as the brains behind an operation that conspired to try to force Bennett to lose millions from one side to the other the last two years of the lease that expires in 2010 and make him sell the team to Ballmer.

Walker denied the charge., on the other hand there’s no denying his involvement or the irony that one of the most unpopular figures in team history is one of the team’s most passionate fans.

In Friday’s testimony, he talked about a 30-year sweetheart affair with the Sonics.

Walker was a reserve on the team that played in the NBA Finals in 1978 and won the championship the next year. He served taken in the character of president and general manager put on a team that lost 4-2 to Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls in the ‘96 Finals.

When asked Friday why he’s interested in keeping the Sonics in Seattle, Walker said: “Beside my own personal history … because of my number of years actuality able to mark the impact the Sonics have had on the common, total kinds of people bring together diverse groups, transport, inspiration. It’s a unique asset.”

Still, Walker is despised by many because of mistakes during his 12 years in the head office.

He inherited a championship-contending team and is held responsible as the man who disassembled it. He has been characterized as a villain. He lost fan support when he publicly bickered with George Karl, Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp. And he’ll forever be linked by free-agent bust Jim McIlvaine, who signed a $35 million contract.

Walker symbolized the Sonics’ internal conflict. He spoke for a dysfunctional ownership group of 58 investors. He was booed at team events. Airplanes flew over the city by banners demanding his dismissal.

Despite his acrimonious relationship by Sonics fans the past decade, Walker’s commitment to the team never wavered. He put into movement a plat to save the team that penuriously worked.

“I betcha he’ll get booed for this, too,” the basketball cool said.

Bennett’s attorneys say the city shouldn’t profit from Walker and his group’s “poison well” way. They say District Court Judge Marsha Pechman should allow the team to pay the balance of the lease and move to Oklahoma City nearest season.

Walker maintains his occasion “certainly wasn’t sinister.”

In an meeting Friday after his testimony, he said: “All we’re painful to do is hold a plan if current ownership doesn’t want to take advantage of the chance; fit here.”

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WASHINGTON

While women bring into being up 14 percent of Army personnel, 46 percent of those discharged under the policy hold out year were women. And while 20 percent of Air Force personnel are women, 49 percent of its discharges under the policy last year were women.

By simile for 2006, about 35 percent of the Army’s discharges and 36 percent of the Air Force’s were women, according to the statistics.

The information was gathered subordinate to a Freedom of Information Act request by the agency of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, a policy support organization.

The organization compiled gender statistics on the discharges but conducted no formal assign of interviews and thus could offer not at all verifiable reason for the increase in women separated from the military under “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

The Pentagon in recent days released overall verse of discharges under the policy for 2007, without a breakdown by gender.

Overall, the number of gay men and lesbians discharged in 2007 rose to 627 from 612 a year before, according to Pentagon statistics. Those figures portray a drop of about 50 percent from a peak in 2001, before the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

According to the statistics, the Army in 2007 discharged 302 soldiers under the policy, up from 280 the year before. The Air Force dismissed 91 people, down from 102 in 2006.

The Navy discharged 166, the sort as in 2006. The Marine Corps discharged 68, up from 64 in 2006.

Pentagon officials could not explain for what cause the fourth book of the pentateuch; census of the hebrews during the term of women increased last year.

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ORCAS ISLAND

No injuries were reported when the 95-year-old schooner Adventuress ran aground at about noon in Wasp Passage betwixt Orcas and Shaw Islands in the San Juan Islands while sailing on a school hop. The ship was scheduled to participate in the Victoria, B.C., Tall Ships festival Thursday through Sunday and the Tacoma Tall Ships Festival July 3-7, where it would also make famous its 95th birthday.

The Sealth was loading cars and passengers at the Orcas Island terminal at what time the Coast Guard asked it to assist the grounded vessel. The Evergreen State was also asked to assist as it was heading to Orcas with a full load of vehicles and passengers. Both ferries launched rescue boats to assist the vessel and five passengers from the Adventuress were taken onto the Sealth.

The boat was towed tonight to Friday Harbor, to which place it will subsist inspected for damage.

The Coast Guard was investigating the effect of the grounding, said Petty Officer Tara Molle.

“She’s a tough old ship,” said Catherine Collins, executive director of Sound Experience, the Port Townsend company that sails the two-masted schooner.

Collins said the sailboat had previously run aground in the 1960s and came out of the experience without a scratch.

The sailboat had 15 passengers and a crew of 12 in succession board when it went aground, Collins before-mentioned.

According to the company’s Web site, the wooden sailboat was built as a pleasure yacht in 1913 but was quickly transformed into a working boat, serving as the pilot boat against San Francisco Bay in quest of 35 years. The Coast Guard used the boat to patrol off San Francisco for the period of World War II.

After years of neglect sitting without ceasing the sandy shore near Sausalito, Calif., the ship was brought to Seattle by new owners, participated in exclusive youth education programs and eventually was bought by the nonprofit Sound Experience towards educational and other trips in Washington’s marine waters.

“Our crew’s regular training really paid off today,” said David Moseley, head of the ferry system. “The bottom crews were able to launch a rescue boat through celerity.”

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Lindsey Oliver refuted the principal’s claim that a sharp increase in teen pregnancies — 17 compared to a typical four — was in ingredient because several girls planned to get pregnant so they could raise their babies together.

“There was definitely nay pact,” Oliver told “Good Morning America.” “There was a group of girls already pregnant that beyond all question they were going to help each other to finish school and raise their kids together. I think it was just a coincidence.”

Oliver, 17, said she became pregnant by accident and that she and her 20-year-old boyfriend, Andrew Psalidas, a common college learner, were using birth control.

The couple was in New York and could not be immediately reached for comment. Psalidas’s father, Charles Psalidas, said his son would not talk to at all other reporters on this account that he’d made some exclusive interview agreement.

The entertainment recent accounts TV pretence “Inside Edition” declared the couple would appear later Monday.

City officials have been reeling for a week since Principal Joseph Sullivan told Time magazine that girls had gotten gravid on purpose, celebrating through high-fives and plans for infant. showers while they learned in the teach health clinic they were expecting.

Sullivan has not spoken publicly about his comments and has failed to respond to repeated conference requests.

Mayor Carolyn Kirk on Monday denied any pact existed.

“Any planned blood-oath bond to become pregnant — there is absolutely no evidence of,” Kirk related.

Sue Todd, chief executory of Pathways by reason of Children, which runs the high school’s on-site day caution center, said Tuesday there was no pact. Time magazine reported in its online number printed at once Monday that Todd said June 13 that a social worker had heard of the girls’ plans as early because last fall.

Todd denies the Time report.

“At no time have I stated to anyone that our social worker had knowledge of this. I have set forth the opposite,” Todd told The Associated Press. “If anyone would be aware of this pact being real it would be us inasmuch as we run the program.”

Times spokesman Ali Zelenko said the magazine stands through its story.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that would shave billions of dollars in reimbursement from health plans that shrink with the founded on Medicare program.

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Some of the microchip-based “smart” systems are touted as improving patient safety, but a Dutch study of equipment — without the patients — suggests the systems could actually cause harm.

A U.S. patient-safety expert related the study “is of urgent significance” and said hospitals should respond proximately to the “disturbing” results.

The wireless systems jaculate out radio waves that be able to interfere through apparatus such as respirators, external pacemakers and kidney dialysis machines, according to the study.

Researchers discovered the problem in 123 tests they performed in an intensive-care one at an Amsterdam hospital. Patients were not using the equipment at the time.

Electromagnetic glitches occurred in almost 30 percent of the tests when microchip devices similar to those in many types of wireless medical equipment were placed within about one add a foot of of the lifesaving machines.

Nearly 20 percent of the cases involved hazardous malfunctions that would apparently damage patients. These included breathing machines that switched from; involuntary syringe pumps that stopped delivering medication; and external pacemakers, which regulate the heart, that malfunctioned.

The wireless systems are used to tag and keep track of medical equipment like heart-testing machines, combined replacements and surgical staplers. They can help quickly fix the boundaries of devices that are elsewhere in the hospital and help prevent theft.

The technology also is viewed as a way to prevent remedy counterfeiting, by embedding microchips in drug containers, and to stop harmful medical errors by keeping tabs on devices used for the period of surgery.

The results show that it’s crucial as far as concerns hospitals to test their wireless items in advance of using them around equipment essential for keeping patients alive, said Dr. Erik Jan van Lieshout, a study co-author and critical care specialist at the University of Amsterdam’s Academic Medical Center.

His study appears in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association.

“Attention must exist paid to these disturbing findings,” Dr. Donald Berwick, president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, said in an editorial in the journal.

“It seems that hospitals, regulators, and manufacturers certainly have some present work to do,” including examining whether similar problems are occurring in hospital critical care units, Berwick said.

Peper Long, a spokeswoman for the Food and Drug Administration, before-mentioned the agency is cognizant of the potential puzzle but has not received any reports of injuries directly caused by electronic interference through hospital medical devices.

She said the FDA is testing more medical devices to “determine their vulnerability and to what extent so vulnerability may bring forth being a public health establishment.”

Previous studies have shown that pacemakers and implanted heart defibrillators are susceptible to interference from enclosed space phones and metal detectors outside hospital settings, according to the FDA’s Web site. The Dutch study focused only on devices and equipment used in hospitals.

“It is absolutely every issue, but you have to manage around it,” said Dr. John Halamka, chief information officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Beth Israel uses the technology for identification and tracking purposes, including microchips embedded in intravenous pumps and ventilators.

Halamka before-mentioned the devices are compatible with the hospital’s wireless netting and that all new machines are evaluated in the van of being used near other electronic medical devices. He aforesaid there have been no examples of harmful interference at Beth Israel.

The JAMA editorial said hospitals should consider surveillance for intermeddling problems that employees place of safety’t noticed or reported. Regulatory agencies also should determine if new safeness government is needed, the editorial recommended.

ClearCount Medical Solutions of Pittsburgh is marketing its strange microchip-embedded surgical “smart” sponges. They respond to scanning wands to help doctors make sure sponges aren’t left within patients.

Co-founder Steven Fleck declared the sponges were designed not to interfere by other hospital equipment and were approved by FDA last year.

David Palmer, ClearCount’s chief executive officer, said these systems can improve patient safety and that as being hospitals to reject such technology for the cause that of the new study report “would be shortsighted.” JAMA:

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Larry Kao describes what Said students face now that they’re nearing the end: "We’re almost outta to this place. Where has the time gone?"

by Larry Kao

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As the Said Business School students ready the end of the program, we are faced through some bold actuality; the wondrous, gruelling, and tantalizing one-year MBA journey is stingily over for us. The fall Michaelmas term was filled with mystery and excitement as we attended matriculation in the 300-year-old Sheldonian Theater. Not cunning what to expect and dreading the exams a mere 10 weeks from home, it felt of a piece a long time before our hibernate break. However, the back term, Hilary, brought a new set of challenges. Whether it was applying for jobs, attending seminars, or joining case competitions, the fast-paced term catapulted us into exams faster than a nictate of an eye. Many students be possible to agree: "We’re towards outta here. Where has the epoch gone?"

With the last term, Trinity, in sight, a slew of options dangles for the class of 2008. Some students are ready to "do their allow thing," using contacts established during our highest major event: "Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford." This appetite grew as Said brought in prosperous entrepreneurs and friendly entrepreneurs in every part the year. The ideas were ironed out as student teams were formed to create a business, complete with a office plan and a pitch to venture capitalists. Every student now has a viable trade plan, and many of them can be successful. With Said Business School’s strong push towards entrepreneurship, the exciting world of startups, angels, and VCs is attractive.

Another major benefit of the Oxford MBA is being a member of a larger university through great schools and departments. Classmates can opt to extend their education in the form of research, PhD degrees, and other Masters programs. Others can use Oxford resources to network for opportunities or help raise money during the term of their new ventures. They also ability stay to avail one’s self of more classes to prevent round out their education. Many students apply to Oxford because of its one-year program but leave wishing it were the standard couple years. Our time here has been in the same state valuable, and we’ve merely begun to investigate the wonders the people of distinction university has to offer.

It’s events like the “Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship” that constantly remind me why I "gambled" by coming to Said . What other MBA school could host every event where we enjoy the company of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams on Wednesday, former President Jimmy Carter on Thursday, and former Vice-President Al Gore on Friday?

The Skoll World Forum, social entrepreneurship, social enterprise, and incorporated social responsibility are for the kind of cause numerous MBAs are at Oxford. Many of the tough topics that leaders of corporations face in today’s business world are shared at the Skoll forum. With every energy that can only be created with hundreds of leaders in the social sector, the world of doing good and doing hearty are beginning to blend.

Attendees and MBAs see that as nongovernmental organizations are growing, it is ever else important to begin recruiting MBAs to help formulate strategies and action plans. Many social sector companies struggle with similar problems that for-profit companies face. Everyone, for-profit or nonprofit, is fighting for customers, dealing by egos, and struggling to retain talent. The forum is a beginning to help the social room make firm ideas and resources. If we are the generation that necessarily to heal the world, then we strait to stop fragmenting ourselves and beginning to share ideas for change immediately.

The most popular choice for students will be to stay their careers. Whether that means shifting gears into a different career track or continuing with their spring path, either road will be a delicious journey after Oxford. No matter what, the 220-member class will be full of newly minted MBAs, internationally experienced managers, and multifaceted thinkers. That sounds pretty famed, but how do I elect?

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GABRIOLA ISLAND, B.C.

“Look. A foot,” she said, turning to her husband, George Baugh.

Baugh used his mate’s walking stick to turn over the white, size 12 sneaker, which lay on its side.

They could see bone about level with the top of the shoe. The bone appeared to have been weathered by the high sea, like silica that washes up in continuance the beach, G

The couple called police. While they waited, Baugh leafed through a local newspaper and noticed a story about a 12-year-old girl from Washington state who, a week earlier, had been boating with her parents at remote Jedidiah Island and found an old, laced-up size 12 sneaker on the sandy shore. Inside were the remains of a infantry.

Ah, thought Baugh. We’ve found the other in the span.

But it turned out that both were right feet. Baugh and Geris had found sum up No. 2 in a deepening riddle in the Strait of Georgia.

Five incorporeal feet

The fabrication has proved so fascinating, grabbing media mindfulness across the globe, that it apparently sparked a hoax last Wednesday when the remains of a dog’s paw, stuffed into a sneaker with seaweed, were found on a beach in the town of Campbell River on Vancouver Island.

Terry Smith, British Columbia’s chief coroner for eight years and a police officer for 35 years previous to that, said he can meagrely turn to a step anywhere in Vancouver without being asked about the feet.

What has made the case riveting is that no one

After months of remaining tight-lipped about the case, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police plan to hold a news interview this week to update the public on the kind of they know. But, according to Smith, that efficacy not be a whole lot.

DNA, but nay matches

A deer munched grass outside the Gabriola detachment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) last week, while detachment commander Corporal Brad Szewczok remained a bit ticked off about all the attention this island of 4,000 retirees and commuters has been getting. Put a microphone in front of more guy who has downed a few beers at the pub, Szewczok says, and who knows what crackpot theory he’ll come up through.

Szewczok’s detachment has been liable for collecting two of the feet. When a “swamper” who was clearing property on adjacent Valdes Island found foot No. 3 in February, it moreover came by means of Szewczok’s extent of authority.

Smith before-mentioned experts have been proficient to extract DNA from the bones of the capital three feet and hope to do the same through the two further recent feet within weeks. The DNA has been checked against dozens of lost people

Smith’s task remains daunting. According to the RCMP, there are some 2,371 populace listed in the same proportion that missing in B.C. Many families of the missing people haven’t been able to provide police with usable DNA.

Smith said there is nothing about any of the remains that indicates foul play

RCMP spokeswoman Constable Annie Linteau declared the agency does not publicly reason about ongoing investigations. The major-crime unit is part of the investigation, she uttered, but also emphasized that there is none evidence of thick play.

One day last week, Linteau said she’d fielded 45 phone calls from media outlets across Canada and around the world, including one from Israel.

The RCMP’s uncommunicativeness to talk about the case has frustrated many residents, some saying it has only served to fuel intellectual examination. There are likewise jurisdictional problems; the RCMP is investigating only the rudimentary four feet, with the fifth falling to the Delta, B.C., police department.

Coming aside at the joints

Gulf Island residents point out that currents sometimes induce sediment and detritus over the strait from the outlets of Vancouver’s Fraser River, where feet No. 4 and 5 were found. It’s possible, they say, that all the feet came from the Fraser.

Across the strait on the Vancouver side, Westham Island is home to fields of strawberries, a bird sanctuary and perhaps 100 residents. It’s accessible only by dint of. a one-lane bridge.

Commercial salmon fisher Sharon Bennett was walking along her dock last Monday morning which time she noticed a large men’s Adidas sneaker floating sole-up in the water nearest to her family’s skiff. She fished it aloud, thinking nothing of it at primary. But it felt heavy, she reported, and she noticed a sock covering whatever was inside.

“Oh, Sharon, it doesn’t look good,” her husband said, before calling police. The couple had found foot No. 5.

One of the world’s most advanced experts on floating objects, oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer, of Seattle, said disarticulated feet do show up in oceans from time to time.

It’s worn out for decomposing bodies to advance apart at the joints, he aforesaid, including at the ankles. He knows of at least pair feet turning up in Puget Sound over the past decade. New, lightweight sneakers help keep the remains buoyant, while too protecting remains from birds, by floating sole up.

Still, Ebbesmeyer corpse mystified by the affix a number to of feet and the lack of accompanying bodies. He would bear expected at least some of the remaining body parts to make it to the shore.

He said the descriptions of the socks

Ebbesmeyer said forensic experts may be able to practice pollen counts and sediment information from the shoes to track their origin. The Seattle expert said he’s been contacted by two families looking for information about missing loved ones, to the degree that well in the manner that media outlets from around the world. But Canadian authorities haven’t sought his advice.

“Back when it happened, it was funny, to be honest,” said Gabriola Island resident Jean Wyenberg. “But now it’s starting to creep people out.”

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Both women, however, long for answers.

Want the speed of a Porsche still the effeminacy of a sedan? If you can bestow the CL63 AMG, this is the car for you

by means of Thane Peterson

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The Good: High performance combined with every possible effeminacy

The Bad: More requiring great outlay than many vacation homes (yet an integrated iPod hookup still costs an extra $425); lousy gas mileage

The Bottom Line: A gloriously luxurious gas-guzzler that’s as speedy as a Porsche

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Many of my favorite moments in the movie Michael Clayton occur when the main character, played by means of George Clooney, is tooling around in his darkly beautiful Mercedes S550. The S-Class is the finished car according to a striver like Clayton, a gambling–addicted “fixer” for a New York law firm who’s trying to pass as a solid citizen. But as a great deal of being of the kind which I loved the car, I kept thinking a single guy like Clayton really should be driving a Mercedes CL-Class, the sportier, two-door coupe version of the S-Class.

Among vehicles that combine high doing with every conceivable luxury, there’s nothing perfectly like the CL-Class. I absolutely love the pair I’ve test-driven, the CL550 and, again recently, the ‘08 CL63 AMG. For those who can afford them, the leading question is whether you want a sport luxury car that’s very go hungry, or one that’s insanely fast.

There are two subclasses within the CL-Class. The CL550 and its more cogent sibling, the CL600, are tilted more toward the voluptuousness faction of the equation than the AMG versions. The CL550, that starts at $104,475, is powered by a 5.5-liter, 382-hp V-8 engine, while the CL600, which is powered by a ruffian of a 510-hp, twin-turbocharged V-12, starts at $148,275.

The AMG versions, the CL63 and CL65, have sport-tuned suspensions, extra-big brakes, 20-in. wheels, and specific badges and interior appointments that emphasize their ultra-high performance. The CL63 starts at $138,375 and is powered by a 6.3-liter, 518-hp V-8. The CL65 starts at a mind-boggling $198,375 and has a 604-hp V-12 under its hood.

The transmission in the CL AMG is a performance-tuned, seven-speed self-moving through a by the hand shifting function and aluminum paddle-shifters mounted in continuance the steering turn round.

The good news is that loading up the CL63 AMG through options only increases the price by 10 or 12 grand, which is practically blameless rounding up in this price class. For $7,000 additional, you can add the AMG performance package, which includes 20-in. double-spoked baser element wheels, carbon-fiber interior trim, and every increase in the meridian succeed governor to 186 mph. The intelligent cruise-control system plus backup assistance and a blind-spot warning a whole go for an extraordinary $2,850. A premium bale that includes a backup camera and night-vision system adds $2,090.

The least expensive option is the one that irks me most—the $425 iPod integration kit. You would think Mercedes would throw that one in for free.

The obvious downside of going with one of the bigger engines is poor fuel dispensation. The CL550, what one. is rated at 14 city/21 public road, does considerably better than somewhat of its more powerful siblings. In 230 miles of mixed driving, I got only 15.6 mpg in a CL63 AMG, which is rated to get 12 in the city and 19 on the highway. That rating is sole a tiny bit better than the CL65 AMG (11/17) and the CL600 (11/19).

Like other big, high-end Mercedeses, the CL-Class is being hurt by high gas prices. CL-Class sales fell 7.7%, to 1,323, in the first five months of this year, while Mercedes’ overall U.S. sale rose 1.1%, to 99,703.

Behind the Wheel

My appearance in the CL63 occurred one afternoon when I decided to make a quick, spur-of-the-moment left turn in front of oncoming traffic. I was astonished by the car’s agility. There was absolutely no sway or body roll, even though I was going much faster than I had intended. I assume this was due to the CL63’s sport postponement coupled with the Active Body Control universe kicking in. Whatever the reason, this extra-sharp handling is what gives the CL63 an edge over the less amount expensive CL550.

The CL63’s other main advantage is raw power. Punch the gas at any speed in this car, and it leaps forward. I clocked the CL63 AMG at 4.8 seconds in accelerating from 0 to 60, slightly slower than the 4.5 seconds at which Mercedes rates it. That makes the CL63 just as quick as the greater amount of expensive V-12-powered CL600, and nearly a backer quicker than the CL550. Only the top-of-the-line C65 AMG, which does 0 to 60 in just 4.2 seconds, is faster.

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A man was shot and killed by a beyond motorist on northbound Interstate 5 near Boeing Access Road seasonable Sunday.

The victim, 18, was driving at about 2:30 a.m. then he was bullet, Tukwila police said. Friends in the car took him to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, at which place he died. His identity was not released.

Police had nay description of the suspect or the vehicle the shooter was driving.

Gunfire kills 2 afterward soccer game

Gunfire on the model of a soccer game Saturday killed a bystander and a gunman and left another body injured.

The shooting in the Tacoma suburb occurred while two men argued around 9:20 p.m. at Springbrook Park. The men began shooting. One of the shooters and a bystander were killed, and a third person was wounded in the leg.

Car of teens shooter at, but no one injured

Seattle teenagers were shot at but not hurt under which circumstances driving in Tukwila onward Saturday evening.

Police said an unknown number of people in another car opened fire on the teens and hit their car at about 7:30 p.m., but not one of the occupants were hit.

The suspects’ vehicle was later found with no one in it. The Seattle Police Department gang unit responded to the scene in the 10700 block of Beacon Avenue South.