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Many of the 203 fatal accidents among the thousands of crashes reported to the highway safety administration in the last year were rollovers of the Explorer that occurred after the tires failed . The data supplied to the committee by the - - from the tire companies will be made available within minutes to the minority members . The Explorer , like all its peers and every vehicle made , has handling characteristics which are optimized for safety with four treaded tires . Mudd said " it 's a safe bet " that the decline is the result of the lawsuits and the publicity surrounding them , as well as the increased availability of different legal options , like iTunes and MusicMatch , for buying music online . " Even without these dual burdens , establishing a successful digital music endeavor has proven elusive for companies that do n't have ancillary services or products - - such as Apple 's ( Nasdaq : AAPL ) iTunes and iPod combination - - to provide revenue . " I started thinking that there 's got to be a way to get the music out to the people without necessarily going through the long arduous process of signing a regular , physical record deal , " he observed . The Explorer is as safe as other SUVs before , during and after a tread separation . " Sun is committed to removing the barriers to participation by open sourcing the most widely used building blocks within the Java Enterprise System , " said John Loiacono , executive vice president of Sun 's Software Group . Yahoo 's digital music service executive on Thursday boldly suggested to Music 2.0 conference attendees that music labels sell their songs online without digital rights management software . " Their latest efforts look remarkably like a phishing exercise , almost akin to those Nigerian scams in which industrious scribes send out messages meant to hook the unwary into paying for , well , nothing . After reviewing your data , I wonder whether these temperature tests were truly a valid comparison of the Firestone tire . Last year , Firestone recalled 6.5 million tires after confronting the accident and fatality reports with Ford and NHTSA which indicated that there was a problem directly linked to Firestone 's 15 '' inch ATX tires and Wilderness AT tires produced at its decatur manufacturing facility . The majority - - and maybe even all , but I certainly know that the majority of the volume sports utility vehicles in the U.S. have tires without nylon caps . Public awareness of tire safety has intensified since last year , and our expectations within the Ford Motor Company of tire performance has also changed . Up to that point , even the 1183 , although it sounds like a high number , you know , when you're dealing with millions and millions of tires , it really was n't very evident to us . The Supreme Court news comes a day after an attorney for Alabama 's pension system announced a settlement in the fund 's suit against Bear Stearns Cos. We looked at whether Explorer behaved differently after a tread separation , and the data show that its performance falls within the range of other vehicles in its class . So I do n't think there is one silver bullet here , and there is a danger of trying to choose one solution or one improvement , without looking at the total benefit of handling and ride and stability . And , again , I understand and appreciate the responsibility you have in providing jobs , providing a product and making sure it is as safe as possible , within the means of being able for consumers to purchase . It 's like being able to race up and spray paint the bullet train in Japan as its moving .