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...terrorism have created a desire among many parents to protect and pamper their children, says Erin Clack, market editor of the trade publication Children's Business. Clack says many parents tell her they want to indulge their children by buying them unique and beautiful things. This trend has been a boon to independent specialty stores like the Kangaroo Pouch in Atlanta. Owner Eloise Morris says customers seem particularly drawn to personalized items, like monogrammed hair bows and bibs...
...around like that? Unsafe at any speed, you might say. Americans know how to listen to an engine, and the something-not-quite-right that they hear in Gore's accounts for the trouble he's in now. Call "Car Talk" and discuss the problem with Click and Clack. Someone told me yesterday that Gore acts like a kid who was home-schooled, and suffers in consequence from some lack of social instinct, from some inadequate peer-assisted triangulation of his personality...
...lunchroom of the Boston public radio station where they've taped their show for the past 23 years, none of their co-workers come within 50 decibels of the laughter emanating from Tom and Ray Magliozzi, the brothers who go by the on-air pseudonyms Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers. In fact, if you listen closely, you realize that Tom laughs slightly louder at Tom's jokes and Ray laughs a bit harder at his own. These guys would do the show without an audience...
With all this exuberance it's strange that the Magliozzis would write In Our Humble Opinion: Car Talk's Click and Clack Rant and Rave (Perigee Books; $20), a 268-page book in which the brothers take four-page turns complaining. They whine about car manufacturers, but also about Starbucks, the Founding Fathers and bottled water. Much of it is smart, but none of it works as well as the radio show. Mostly because you can't hear them laugh...
OVERLAND TRAIL CLICKETY-CLACK BACK TO A MORE GRACIOUS PAST If there is a time machine that allows you to relive the days when going by rail meant going in style, when women dressed up and wore gloves and men sported fedoras and suits with wide lapels, it is the Overland Trail, a 1939 club lounge car that was once a part of the Southern Pacific streamliner that ran from Oakland, Calif., to Chicago. Owners Bill and Debbie Hatrick of Santa Ana, Calif., have restored the car to its original condition and made it available for private parties and public...