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This summer could be the single's swan song. Fewer than half of the Top 100 songs in the country are available for individual purchase. The great shame is that from Sheryl Crow to Ashanti to Toby Keith, the summer of 2002 has produced a bumper crop of wonderfully disposable, inexplicably indelible singles--none of which are available as singles. Only a few of these songs come from albums worth owning, so how you get your hands or modems on them is up to you. But every summer needs its singles, if for no other reason than to mark...
...same-sized pie," says Charles Maurisset-Latour of the venerable Burgundian firm Maison Latour. The traditional major producers - France, Spain and Italy - have found themselves squeezed by state-of-the-art competitors from Australia, New Zealand, South America and South Africa. When French exports started to fall after a bumper year in 1998, growers wondered if they'd got something wrong. "We used to make wine that we knew was good and assumed it would sell itself," says Jean-Luc Dairien, general manager of the French Wines Council, "but that just doesn't work any more...
...signs throughout the 15 E.U. countries, common fines for similar offenses, tougher laws to protect cyclists, signaling frequent crash sites, more research into airbags and tires, fitting all cars with black boxes like those in aircraft. Sounds good. But doesn't it nearly all come down to attitude? One bumper sticker I remember from my youth in Australia just said, "Courtesy is Catching." It is. Another read, "Better late than dead on time." There are 40,000 good reasons to drink to that...
...boomerangs randily between her two love interests, a bond enforcer named Ranger and a cop called Joe Morelli, written by Evanovich with the flair of a former romance writer. Evanovich also knows how to keep the laughs coming: "Fortunately, the flow on the Turnpike was steady. Good Jersey traffic. Bumper to bumper at 80 miles an hour...
...show up. Another guy digs it out by the goddamn roots with a terrible director and turns in this incredible performance. And someone says one is better than the other. That's what's nice about car racing. It's right to a thousandth of a second. Your bumper is here. That guy's bumper is there...