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...understand Brendan Benson’s current situation is to understand his past, and to understand his past is to understand upheaval. After spending childhood pinballing between his birthplace of Detroit and Louisiana, Benson eventually settled in Oakland, California, where in the mid-1990s he was discovered by Virgin Records and signed to a multi-album deal. Benson’s 1996 debut, Mississippi One, fell into the familiar rut of being critically acclaimed but commercially shunned, due in part to troubles with the record company. His first record has gone out of print, but since its release, Benson...
...those are the guidelines to stick with, says Dr. David Decker, an oncologist specializing in breast cancer at the William Beaumont Hospital in metro Detroit. "I tell patients to continue following the recommendations from the American Cancer Society and the NCI," he says...
Michigan congressman John Dingell, who was forced by security to drop his pants at Washington's Reagan National Airport a week ago, grumbled to the Detroit News that screeners "felt me up and down like a prize steer." He later insisted he didn't "want any special treatment" when Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta called to express his sympathy. Some other victims of newly vigilant airport-security personnel are getting much worse handling. The airlines' own uniformed flight crews are often searched several times in a single day, and the pilots are getting so fed up that they have begun...
...though. It's the first in what General Motors says will be a parade of like-minded, provocative Cadillacs. Another stab in the same direction comes from a company that two years ago was given up for dead: Nissan. The 2002 Nissan Altima, which won top honors at the Detroit Auto Show last week as the North American car of the year, is a screamer, with 240hp and a body design which, like the CTS's, makes you look twice. The Altima's interior is a little on the plasticky side, and for some reason its side mirrors...
...Which brings me to the real lesson here: as the Altima, the CTS and a panoply of new rolling stock at the Detroit show signal, car companies everywhere have suddenly awakened to the need to give us interesting cars again. We want cars born of passion, not focus groups, please. Every car company has just about the same technology and engineering capability, and it's all better than ever. Finally, after a decade of producing completely reliable - but truly boring - cars, there are some interesting ideas out there. The CTS just happens to be the first one that made...