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...minutes later after detecting its stench, then drive off, leaving viewers with this message about the car: "It fits your life or the complete lack thereof." The spot breathed new life into its sound-track song, a 1982 release by the now defunct German band Trio. It also created bumper-to-bumper parodies that replicated the ad down to the most minute detail, with everyone from Jay Leno to Bill Gates taking a joyride in a Golf...
...continue down this same road, what will this earth look like generations from now? Empty oceans, chopped-down forests and bumper stickers that read SAVE US FROM OURSELVES. JENNIFER LEE, age 16 New York City I have been fishing for bluefin tuna commercially for 30 years and have seen an incredible increase in the stock since 1988. The conservation program has worked, but at the expense of commercial fishermen. We are heavily restricted in the amount and size of the tuna we catch, while recreational anglers are not. If consumers want to do something to help fish stocks, they should...
...imperial power to many locals. Ranching and mining are major industries, and both are feeling persecuted lately by certain cosmopolitan outsiders. In Eureka the taverns sell a T shirt bearing the words WRANGLERS: WESTERN RANCHER AGAINST NO GOOD LIBERAL ENVIRONMENTALIST S___HEADS. The pickup trucks sport a proud, defensive bumper sticker: IF IT WASN'T GROWN, IT HAD TO BE MINED. In a region where people's lives are dominated by forces beyond their power to influence--the swings of the metals market, the grazing policies of the Bureau of Land Management, the caprices of the U.S. military...
...balloons have all popped, the confetti been swept away. Lawn signs will be pulled down and bumper stickers will erode. High school bands in swing states will go back to playing at football games instead of political rallies. Our airwaves can be reclaimed in the name of products we don't need, after having been temporarily subjugated by candidates we don't want. It is all over. Bob Dole, who first faced the voters at age 27, has waged his last campaign and lost. Bill Clinton, who ran his first race at age 28, has waged his last campaign...
...rather than electing to tune in, turn on and drop out, Gen Xers are proving to be deeply competitive. Back when bumper stickers exhorted one to make love not war--in 1973, to be exact--only two-thirds of twentysomethings polled by Yankelovich agreed that "competition encourages excellence." Today 82% of their counterparts say, "I like to compete: it makes me perform better." The recent surge of extreme sports--from bungee jumping to sky surfing--is no accident. The hip slogan of the Gen X T shirt? NO FEAR. Indeed, adversity, far from discouraging youths, has given them a harder...