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...days a week, Shannon Rogers kisses his wife and two young kids goodbye and wheels his battered 1989 Chevy Cavalier out of the driveway of his suburban Nevada home. The houses here are cookie cutter, done in beige stucco. Like most of the other dads and some moms in this traditional middle-class community, Rogers heads down Interstate 215, toward his job near Las Vegas, using the 30-minute drive to make the mental transition from family man to workplace professional. But Rogers will end up in a place far different from that of his fellow commuters: when he arrives...
...home theater world, the term used to describe the aesthetic appeal of a system is the "spousal acceptance factor." That is to say, if you pull into the driveway with a particular piece of electronics, would your spouse deny or grant you entry into the house? Thanks to DVD, digital satellite and cable, and the latest game consoles like the Xbox 360, the need for a surround-sound setup is ever greater, and so a lot of thought now goes into minimizing the aesthetic footprint of the required five speakers and subwoofer. Yamaha's compact YSP-800 not only replaces...
...location offers more space for storing merchandise as well as extensive parking along Beacon Street and in a nearby driveway...
...Orleans. We arrived at [my mother's] house at about noon, and discovered that the search and rescue team had already searched the house because of the markings on the house that indicated no one was inside. However, my 79-year-old mother's car was in the driveway. I noticed that there was no visible hold in the roof for entry into the attic. Plus, the iron bars on the doors and windows were locked. No one could have possibly searched the house. My son, who is a New Orleans firefighter, agreed that no one could have entered...
...been an abondoned trailer that has been wrecked and tossed on its side. Around the corner, Bond stops the big white Chevy 2500HD pickup again. A tree has crushed the roof of a good-sized bungalow, easily enough damage to have incapacitated anyone inside. "We got cars" in the driveway, he says. "We better do a check," says Lykins. The trio gets out to search, forcing their way in through the front door with a Haligan, a classic fireman's tool that resembles a crowbar with various edges at different angles. "Anybody here?" Inside, the ceiling and roof rafters...