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...kind of car that might inspire another Cheech and Chong road trip. From its groovy arched roof and fenders to a funky blue speedometer, the new Beetle--introduced last week at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit--is a motorized monument to Flower Power nostalgia. All that's missing is a Day-Glo paint job and a roach clip in the ashtray. But the Beetle will be a much trickier resurrection than bell-bottoms now that boomers seem partial to cars and trucks big enough to fit a Bug in the back...
Practicality aside, that li'l Bug sure is cute. And VW plans to show that if it tugs the heartstrings, it will pluck the purse strings too. With such slogans as "More power and less flower" and "If you sold your soul in the 1980s, here's your chance to buy it back," VW hopes that blending baby-boomer nostalgia with Generation X sophistication will help sell as many as 50,000 Beetles in the next year. "This car is for people who see the world's glass as half full," gushes Jens Neumann, VW managing director for North America...
...result, parents have been turning to all sorts of bizarre alternatives, including eucalyptus and neem oils and chrysanthemum-flower extract, solutions that have been recommended on the Internet. Others have taken to smearing their children's heads with mayonnaise, petroleum jelly or Crisco, then having the kids sleep in a shower cap. In July a 13-year-old girl in Lorimor, Iowa, died after her mother doused her head in gasoline and a pilot light on the family's hot-water heater ignited the fumes. Last spring, a six-year-old Oklahoma girl stopped breathing temporarily after her mother...
...selection, AIDS researcher Dr. David Ho, our choice is less a nod to one striking year than an acknowledgment of the culmination of an ongoing process. Intel's chips have been around for nearly three decades, but 1997 was the year Grove's life's work reached full flower. It was the year cell phones, Websites and E-mail became ubiquitous, the year the global economy, for good and ill, became an undeniable reality. Intel chips hum at the center of everything from coffee machines to Hollywood's special effects to Wall Street's trading desks...
...walls of Olympic Stadium resemble the petals of a cherry blossom, a national flower. Opening and closing ceremonies will be held here. After the Games, the stadium will be used for a national pastime: baseball...