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...roles. But we have something that significantly alters the plot: a technology-laden vehicle, in which, for hours at a time, our kids can forget they're traveling at all. Rather than opt for another minivan or sport-utility vehicle when we went car shopping a couple of years ago, we followed the lead of a neighbor (who drives to Connecticut every summer) and bought a luxury liner, better known as a conversion van, custom-outfitted for long road trips. Among its many perks: two stereos...
...under the fluorescent magnifying lamp, hunting down everything the nit comb missed. This job will take two hours; heavier infestations take as long as six hours. "It's something you have to do," says Serrano, who has found bugs in her own hair twice since she opened a year ago. "We check each other every...
...tedious task of nitpicking seems oddly out of date in an age when modern medicine has made so many gains against maladies far more serious than lice. Why, 20 years ago, a bottle of Kwell, a hot dryer and a good cleaning did the job. But today's louse, a.k.a. Pediculus humanus capitis, which nests in 12 million new heads annually, is a hardier bug, having grown resistant to the prescription drugs lindane and Elimite and the over-the-counter permethrin drug Nix, which remain imperfect mainstays in the treatment of lice. "The pyrethrins [RID, Pronto and A-200 Pyrinate...
...undeclared presidential front runner. How did a man who was, as a cousin once described it, "on the road to nowhere at age 40" find the road that led him here? Even some close friends are surprised by Bush's sudden rise. Others who knew him casually years ago are astonished that he might be deemed presidential timber. "If George is elected President," says Midland geologist David Rosen, a Democrat who was once a neighbor of Bush's, "it would destroy my faith in the office. Because he is such an ordinary guy. Likable and decent? Sure. Presidential? I wouldn...
...Holbrooke, nominated to Madeleine Albright?s old post of U.N. ambassador exactly one year ago, is safely heterosexual and perhaps the sharpest knife in the U.S. diplomatic drawer. But he faces a roadblock of his own in one of (coincidentally?) Hormel?s fiercest enemies, nomination-killer Jesse Helms. In 1997, Helms snuffed out former Massachusetts governor William Weld?s Mexico ambassadorship because Weld hailed from the GOP?s moderate wing, and Helms doesn?t like his kind. In Holbrooke?s case, it?s just another swipe at Clinton, though the official reason is "ethical baggage." Never mind that Holbrooke...