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...innovator with its Explorer model and just kept making them bigger. Meanwhile, the Japanese started making good SUVs too, and the competition made the profit margins shrink. When the price of gas soared, SUV sales tanked, and the U.S. companies were caught without money spinners. Ford stopped making the four-ton Excursion, which had been criticized as a gas-hungry dreadnought. GM's solution, "employee pricing" for everyone, gave away the store. Ford had to match...
...MASON & DIXON (Henry Holt) Thomas Pynchon's vast novel retraces the progress of the men who drew the line between the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland. For all its Pynchonesque tomfooleries--a talking dog, a four-ton cheese--the tale is somber, elegiac. Mason and Dixon come to realize that their triumph means an end to the wilderness, the imposition of order on "the realm of the Sacred...
...partner, Dixon asks, "Tell me, what'd I say?" The anachronistic allusion to Ray Charles' future rock hit will tickle the cognoscenti. The book teems with other familiar Pynchonesque diversions: a talking dog that appears near the beginning and again near the end of the story; a four-ton cheese called "The Octuple Gloucester"; a journey by Mason to the inhabited center of the earth; cameo appearances by a number of 18th century notables, including Benjamin Franklin, George and Martha Washington (who sing a duet) and Dr. Samuel Johnson, accompanied by his biographer-to-be James Boswell...
Vatican garages house six of the four-ton, bulletproof Popemobiles. And a surprising 14 other heavy-duty papal vehicles stand at the ready around the world. (The one John Paul rode through Denver last month was shipped up from Mexico.) Land Rover manufactured the first Popemobile for his visit to Britain in 1982, shortly after the Pontiff survived an assassin's bullet. Since then, almost everywhere John Paul went, new Popemobiles were sure to appear -- manufactured and generally donated by Renault, Peugeot, GM, Toyota and Mercedes Benz, among others. Last week, on his trip to the Baltic states (his 61st...
...early June, the four-ton, 30-ft.-long female minke whale was done with her winter sojourn in temperate waters. It was time to head back to the chilly Arctic for the summer. Traveling north, she and her fellow minkes would periodically dive down to gulp fish, then swim back to the surface to suck air through their blowhole -- for like all whales, minkes are air-breathing mammals. They followed an age-old migratory track, invisible to humans but as well marked as an interstate highway to the whales...