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...operas, ballets and plays?one former ballerina even taught a young Margot Fonteyn to dance?and their restaurants, millineries and fur shops helped give the French Concession its cosmopolitan character. Every self-respecting Chinese gangster had a bevy of White Russian bodyguards riding on the running boards of his Chevrolet...
...have to shell out as much as $2,000 for a replacement. "People are not willing to pay extra money for fuel economy in the U.S.," says Rich Marsh, who heads GM's hybrid-truck program. That's why GM plans to market its hybrid GMC Sierra and Chevrolet Silverado pickups, due out in 2004, not on their tiny 2-m.p.g. improvement in fuel consumption but on the benefits of their onboard electric generators and standard outlets for plugging in power tools...
RUDY GIULIANI: My first thought is sort of a rejection: How could this happen? Airplanes don't hit the World Trade Center. What are we talking about? [Racing through Greenwich Village on the way to the scene, the mayor's Chevrolet Suburban passes by St. Vincent's Hospital.] I see on the street half a dozen stretchers and doctors and nurses in operating gowns. It registers that they must know something--that this is really bad. That's when the second plane hits...
...hooked such big-name sponsors as Chevrolet, Kellogg's and Pepsi. "We turn down more sponsorships than we have," Irwin says. And the competition has become a staple on ESPN and ESPN2. Initially, Irwin had to produce the program and buy the ad space himself just to guarantee the airtime...
...just as in Goteborg and Prague, extremists are grabbing the spotlight. Right before Luers' trial, the Chevrolet dealership he set on fire was torched again. "We can no longer allow the rich to parade around in their armored existence, leaving a wasteland behind in their tire tracks," read a communique from the new (but still anonymous) arsonists. Zerzan, a soft-spoken graybeard who advocates a return to a hunter-gatherer society, applauds the fire bombers. "I'd like to see it happen every day," he says. "We're interested in destroying the system, not in macho saber rattling." Whatever...