21.   History is not just a speeding car, more or less out of control, whose speedometer is about to flip over.

22.   I grab the dashboard and crack my forehead against the windshield as Khalid, my driver, accelerates through a checkpoint, flanked by speeding cars.

23.   Holding test balls out the window of a speeding car provided an adequate wind-tunnel substitute.

24.   In Hebron, an Israeli Apache gunship fires a volley of missiles at a speeding car carrying the local commander of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.

25.   In Texas, a mosque was firebombed, and mosques in Indiana and Ohio were rammed by speeding cars.

26.   In the enormous upstairs cocktail lounge, sepia murals look like photos shot from a speeding car.

27.   It was as if it had been sliced off at the end like sausage, diverting speeding cars onto a much smaller, much slower road.

28.   It would take the force of a speeding car to move it, a force as powerful as the one that put it there in the first place.

29.   Like a clicking odometer on a speeding car, the number twirls higher nearly each day.

30.   Much as a speeding car would.