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...caught by police in New York City--as in many other jurisdictions--Wendy and Alex could face a fine of as much as $250 for unlawfully posting advertisements, and higher if the sticker could not be easily removed. Some SUV owners, however, want to administer their own brand of justice--if only they could catch taggers. Even Alex admits, "I wouldn't like someone stickering up my bicycle." --By Amanda Bower
...important not to make too much of market research. Bradsher's book boldly says industry data have shown that SUV buyers "tend to be more restless, more sybaritic and less social than most Americans. They tend to like fine restaurants a lot more than off-road driving, seldom go to church and have limited interest in volunteer work." But Bradsher admits SUV buyers don't necessarily have all those traits; they are just more likely to have them than minivan owners. Last week Kelley Blue Book, an auto-information company, released a survey of new-vehicle buyers who had visited...
...Cooder's 1997 collaboration with a group of septuagenarian Cuban musicians, Buena Vista Social Club, sold 8 million copies and earned a Grammy for Best Tropical Latin Performance. It also earned Cooder a $100,000 fine from the U.S. government. "I learned that what Buena Vista means to the people who enforce the [Cuba trade and travel] embargo," says Cooder, "is not very much...
...fine was reduced to $25,000, but Cooder was ordered to stay out of Cuba at the precise moment the public was thirsting for more Cuban music. On the last day of the Clinton presidency--after Cooder had lobbied the State Department for two years--he was given a one-year exemption from the travel ban. The result is Mambo Sinuendo, Cooder's playful, dueling guitar album with Manuel Galban. "I knew that I wanted to work with the Buena Vista musicians again because, hey, many of them are geniuses," says Cooder. "But Manuel's the most surprising of them...
...pyramids and Sphinx. Before the sun gets too high, you can play tennis on real clay courts and then spend the afternoon poolside in a courtyard framed by palms and with a pyramid view. Chateaubriand for two ($29) is served in the ornate Al Rubayatt restaurant. And a fine place to end the evening is the Mamluk Bar, which buzzes with a crowd of international characters who seem to have walked off the set of Casablanca...