2010 Smart fortwo pure Coupe

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The standard features of the smart fortwo pure include 1.0L I-3 70HP engine, 5-speed auto-shift manual transmission with overdrive, 4-wheel anti-lock brak

es (ABS), side seat mounted airbags, driver and passenger side airbag head extension, airbag.

Expert Reviews

“The Smart Fortwo will not be the best choice for drivers that need an all-around vehicle to haul people and cargo, but it will work as a second car or city vehicle. It’s generally fun to drive. The pricing doesn’t make it an outstanding deal off the showroom floor, but the Smart Fortwo should be inexpensive to operate and help owners leave a smaller carbon footprint.

“The Smart Fortwo will not be the best choice for drivers that need an all-around vehicle to haul people and cargo, but it will work as a second car or city vehicle. It’s generally fun to drive, and Smart has engineered it to be safe. The pricing doesn’t make it an outstanding deal off the showroom floor, but the Smart Fortwo should be cheap to operate and help owners leave a smaller ecological footprint.

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U.N. Chief's Appeal To Fight Cholera In Haiti

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon made an urgent appeal Friday for more money to fight the cholera epidemic in Haiti that has claimed more than 1,800 lives.The United Nations had asked for $164 million in mid-November. Ban said that only 20 percent had materialized.

The water-borne disease has not spread to all 10 departments or provinces of the impoverished Caribbean nation, but the latest data from the Ministry of Public Health reported 1,882 cholera deaths and almost 85,000 people sickened. The Pan American Health Organization said the good news is that a smaller proportion of infected people are dying.

In the first weeks of the cholera epidemic, which began in late October, the proportion of hospitalized patients dying of cholera was as high as 9 percent, the health organization said. That number is now down to 3.5 percent.

“This is progress,” said Deputy Director Dr. Jon K. Andrus. “There are still too many deaths, and we face many challenges. But the hard work of Haitian doctors, nurses, and community workers and their partners in the international community is, in fact, saving many lives.” But Ban warned that the numbers were rough estimates at best and the outbreak is projected to sicken as many as 650,000 people in the next six months.“Clearly, it will continue to spread. Unfortunately,” Ban said, “this is a function of a particularly virulent strain of cholera as well as underlying issues: a weak national health system, poor sanitary conditions, and the lack of clean water and other basic services.”

“Without a massive and immediate international response, we will be overwhelmed,” he said.

Symptoms of cholera, an acute, diarrheal illness caused by infection of the intestine, can be mild or even nonexistent. But sometimes they can be severe — profuse watery diarrhea, vomiting and leg cramps, which can cause rapid loss of body fluids and lead to dehydration and shock.If left untreated, a person can die within hours.

Dubai’s spire of Mission Impossible sets bar !

The crew of the latest Mission: Impossible will have at least one tall task: filming shots involving the world’s highest building.

The filmmakers are being tightlipped about plot details and where exactly they plan to shoot in Dubai. But star Tom Cruise and producer Bryan Burk did let slip Thursday that the fourth installment of the big screen series will feature scenes with the Mideast city-state’s more than half-mile-high (828-meter-high) Burj Khalifa.

“I’ll be spending many days, many hours on the side of this building,” Cruise told The Associated Press at the base of the silvery spire. “I can’t…