Word: auto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life in a bar. "Yes, she did," says Annette Dryden of the Lost and Found Saloon near Portland, Ore. A woman with diabetes keeled over, and Tonya brought her back with mouth-to-mouth. But she switched bars when she moved to Washington State and became a regular at Auto's Pub in Vancouver, Wash., says owner Bob Synoground...
...into the championship round, then lost the last race. "She was not a happy camper," Synoground says. The winner finally shut her up by giving her the damn prize: a Budweiser jacket. Synoground had a talk with her, and she has not returned. But she did autograph an Auto's Pub T shirt that hangs on the wall...
SHOCK THERAPY With all the politicians getting tough on crime, it was only a matter of time before car-theft victims got into the act. Now Air Taser's Auto Taser, a $250 steering-wheel lock, lets vengeful car owners dole out their own brand of punishment against would-be thieves. If break-in artists ignore the Auto Taser's wailing alarm, they're greeted with a 50,000-volt "nonlethal" electric shock. Talk about a sting operation...
...aluminum, titanium and carbon fiber that gets up to 63 m.p.g. and weighs 40% less than a Taurus. Ford promised to adapt its Windstar minivan, classified as a truck, to meet lower emissions by 1999. But while the Big Three talk about adding a salad bar to the auto buffet, they are busily cooking up the industry equivalent of pork sandwiches. "Look, we can make a car that runs on rubber bands and squirrels on treadmills," sighs Chrysler vice chairman Robert Lutz, "but that's not what people want...
Before he died last summer in an auto accident while studying impact craters in Australia, geologist Eugene Shoemaker recalled that the biggest disappointment of his life was "not going to the moon and banging on it with my own hammer." Shoemaker, a famed expert in lunar science, had dreamed of becoming the first geologist to accompany Apollo astronauts to the moon. But because of health problems, he had to settle for training astronauts in geology and analyzing the lunar rocks they brought back...