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...brother Van Laurant, 78, who has alzheimers, she had run into looters while trying to drive through the waters out of the city. They had very charitably given her raw chicken taken from a freezer of a Church's chicken restaurant. But then they stripped her red Jeep Cherokee of its battery. The car eventually went underwater. Rescued by chopper, she and Shadow, were trying to make sure Van didn't wander off. "He don't know what happened five minutes ago," she said sadly. "He doesn't have any idea there was a hurricane." Dorothy tells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like Baghdad on the Bayou | 9/3/2005 | See Source »

...would the new rules benefit the environment? They would toughen fuel-efficiency standards on such popular SUVs as the Ford Explorer and Jeep Grand Cherokee. The Bush Administration claims that would save 10 billion gal. of gas over the life of vehicles built from 2008 through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fuel Efficiency: Target: Guzzlers | 8/29/2005 | See Source »

Most of what you need to know about R. Kelly's music can be learned from his 1995 hit You Remind Me of Something: "You remind me of my Jeep, I wanna ride it/ Something like my sound, I wanna pump it/ Girl you look just like my cars, I wanna wax it." Kelly likes cars. Kelly likes sex. Kelly likes writing stupefyingly obvious metaphors in which cars stand in for sex. Even people with no understanding of pop music can grasp Kelly's commercial appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: The Best Defense ... | 7/17/2005 | See Source »

...circumstances of al-Sharif's killing have some puzzling elements. Why, for instance, was the Egyptian diplomat--who was abducted by as many as eight gunmen while driving in his jeep in western Baghdad--traveling alone in a city where foreigners of his importance are usually accompanied by heavily guarded caravans? One possibility is that al-Sharif was trying to hold secret talks with insurgents. Iraq's Interior Minister, Bayan Jabr, lent that theory some credence at a press conference. "Some [diplomats] go to places on their own in order to meet some insurgents," he said. "We warned about doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Death of A Diplomat | 7/10/2005 | See Source »

...antisatellite system; and comes to rest outside the Northrop hangar, wherein the Tigershark resides. Our innocent is not met by a sales rep; rather, Roy Martin, a test pilot, blond and angular and wearing a jumpsuit crosshatched by so many zippered pockets that he could carry a disassembled jeep around in his coveralls, takes the shopper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: Ogling the F-20 Tigershark | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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