American officials say that the car carrying Ms. Sgrena had been speeding toward a military checkpoint along the airport road, the site of regular attacks against both military and civilian vehicles, and that it had ignored warnings in the form of hard signals, flashing lights and warning shots.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA The two Voyager spacecraft have been speeding toward the "edge" of the solar system for 35 years, and Voyager 1 is getting close, very close, to leaving the sun's solar wind behind and entering interstellar space.
Over the past few months Tyler and Odd Future have been speeding from the margins of the Internet toward the center of forward-thinking music circles thanks to a barrage of self-released albums, mayhem-inducing live performances and an ability — at this point, it's verging on desire — to instantly polarize listeners.
In fairness, the Vinson would have been powerful and provocative enough — if it had, in fact, been speeding toward the Korean Peninsula, or the Sea of Japan, or even just the Pacific Ocean, which it was not.
He went back to his daydreaming, thinking of how much he loved his wife, Ruth, but then he realized that the canoe had been oarless and it was speeding toward the Falls.
And all this talk about evil has obscured a dangerous reality: We're speeding toward a train wreck on the Korean peninsula.
The best way to cross the street is with your eyes closed, because six and a half million people live there, and they all have mopeds, most of which will be speeding toward you, wherever you are, if you start to look.
Suppose you throw a golf ball at a locomotive that is speeding toward you.
