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...years, I too had focused on my hair as a defining characteristic. Everyone dwells on the things that make her feel abnormal. Marcia Brady never could get over that broken nose and George Costanza constantly worried about his height. For me it was something called Alopecia Areata, an auto-immune disease that causes unpredictable hair loss. Having lived with this condition since fourth grade, I adapted to it by choosing to wear a wig from sixth grade on. I have had varying amounts of hair over the past decade from none to a little to a fair amount...
...standards. To achieve compliance, Houston will have to reduce nitrous-oxide emissions as much as 90%. Faced with this crisis--and the presidential race--Texas officials are moving quickly to draw up new plans to reduce emissions. And Bush has asked his regulators to consider adopting California's strict auto-emission standards. "It's funny--the closer he gets to the general election," says Ken Kramer, director of the Sierra Club's Texas chapter, "the more of an environmentalist he becomes. But his record doesn...
...remember that we're in an election year," says TIME correspondent Andrew Zagorin. While economists don't predict that the high oil prices alone could drive inflation in the U.S., it could certainly have an impact on consumer behavior - and thus potentially slow down the high-revving American economy. Auto industry analysts are already pointing to oil prices as a partial culprit in the recent drop-off of SUV sales...
...with an interest in rural life, countrysingles.com Soon enough one profile caught his eye, that of Ann Christensen, also 42. Within a few weeks, the two were e-mailing each other, and by February they were engaged. Rudin moved from Seattle to Fresno, Calif., found a job as an auto mechanic, and last June he married Christensen, a customer-service rep with an agricultural company. The newlyweds completed their rural idyll by settling down on a 30-acre raisin farm. "If you had told me that I would wind up meeting my great love this way," says Rudin, "I would...
...likely to become an auto-industry trend? "Unlikely," says Gibney. "Although they may want to do something similar, most of Ford's competitors may not be able to afford it." The most immediate beneficiary of the scheme, of course, is Hewlett Packard, which is now expecting an order equivalent to 4 percent of its 1999 worldwide sales. Corporations with money to burn - Ford has $23.6 billion in cash reserves - ought to expect calls from Compaq, Dell, Gateway and Apple...