The car??s lightweight carbon composite chassis, designed by Delta and manufactured by KS Composites, weighs just 85kg ?C 2/3 less than a comparable steel structure, helping the model achieve its quick acceleration without compromising on range.

"He could really relate to the kids," said his son Kevin Drew of Grapevine. "He had more of an encouraging type personality. He had discipline - don't get me wrong - but I don't think it was a fear-type discipline."

Yet for all these similarities, I personally feel very differently about the two polls. In the case of Afghanistan, a country whose troubled history I have spent the last five years writing, the poll is done and whoever the winner is, I already feel intense relief at the way the election has gone. For the level of participation was so massive, and so unprecedented, that all over the country ballots began running out as early as midday. Despite heavy rain, nearly twice as many people - an extra three million - voted in this election than in the previous one: seven million out of a total electorate of 12 million. For the first time in its entire history, Afghanistan will have a relatively peaceful transfer of power via the ballot box.

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