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...whatever my new midnight-blue ride lacks in exterior flash it more than makes up for with interior luxuries: huge leather seats, lightning-quick seat warmers, individual climate control, DVD player, satellite radio, five-CD changer, three power outlets for my cell phone, "conversation mirror" (to facilitate chats with backseat passengers), voice-activated navigation system and, of course, 15 cup holders for those mornings when I feel the need for several different flavors of Frappuccino. Throw in a wet bar and a shower massage, and I can't foresee the need to leave my vehicle ever again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Roving Barcalounger | 7/24/2005 | See Source »

Everywhere maxine clark goes, people ask her, "Are you the bear lady?" And it's not because she has a cuddly stuffed bear named Curly strapped into the backseat of her car. A former shoe executive, Clark, 56, is the founder and chief executive of Build-A-Bear Workshop, a mall-based toy retailer that has sold more than 26 million customer-made teddies ($10 to $25 each; outfits and accessories cost extra) since it opened its first store in St. Louis , Mo., eight years ago. Today the chain has more than 180 U.S. stores and 16 overseas franchises; last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biz Briefs: Not Your Average Bear | 7/3/2005 | See Source »

...hold. As we remarked in April, “…no public figure can operate effectively under such intense scrutiny.” Now that “Innate-Gate” is receding into the past, we are hopeful that spotlight-grabbers will take a backseat to legitimate, constructive criticisms of Summers and his administration...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Scrutiny Gone Too Far | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

Without being in Kirk Kerkorian's mind, it's hard to say why a secretive 87-year-old Beverly Hills billionaire would suddenly buy shares in an industrial dinosaur like General Motors. So let's say this: The man doesn't like sitting in the backseat, not in his personal life, certainly not as a businessman. Most mornings he drives himself to work in a Jeep Grand Cherokee, arriving at the office by 10:30. He can afford a chauffeur, of course, since he's worth an estimated $9 billion, a fortune built over a half-century of buying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dealmaker Rides Again | 5/9/2005 | See Source »

...host and writer of the inventive 1987 PBS science series The Ring of Truth, Morrison helped assemble the first atom bomb with his own hands and later accompanied it in a car to the test site near Alamogordo, N.M., riding next to the bomb's core in the backseat. But after witnessing the bomb's impact in Nagasaki, Japan--"There was just one enormous, flat, rust-red scar, and no green or gray," he said--he became a lifelong champion of nonproliferation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 9, 2005 | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

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