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...years, Norm Bour, 51, and his wife Peggy, 57, are refinancing for the fourth time. Not only will they lower their house payments by $200, but the Bours will also tap into their equity to the tune of $135,000 to redo their wood floors, pay for Norm's Lexus (now that the lease is up) and pay off their time share in Maui. Their latest loan: a 30-year, $350,000 adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) for a home valued at slightly less than $1 million...
...October 2002, West, exhausted from hours spent in a recording studio, fell asleep behind the wheel of his Lexus and nearly died. "He called me from his hospital bed with his jaw wired shut and asked for a drum machine," says Dash. "That impressed me." Three weeks after the accident, with his jaw still shut, West went to a studio and mumbled Through the Wire, a song about the crash built on the accelerated chorus of Chaka Khan's Through the Fire. It was dramatic and funny ("I drink a Boost for breakfast, a Ensure for dizzert/ Somebody ordered pancakes...
...first the Lexus RX 400h looks like another road-hogging sport-utility vehicle?albeit one that's plusher than typical models. But because it draws power from two electric motors?in addition to a regular gas engine?the 400h is one of the most fuel-efficient SUVs. No wonder U.S. buyers have placed some 12,000 preorders for the car, which hits showrooms this month. TIME took a production model for a test drive to find out what all the buzz is about. ?By Anita Hamilton...
...Performs The combined city/highway rating for the 400h is 29 m.p.g.?close to the 26 m.p.g. we got in more than 200 miles of test driving. In comparison, a Lexus RX 330, which is identical to the 400h but runs on a standard gas engine, got only 14 m.p.g. on our tests. At start-up and in slow city traffic, the 400h runs solely on its silent electric motors, making for a peaceful commute. The 400h handled well, accelerated quickly and quietly engaged its gas engine. Because the 400h has a power output similar to that of a 4-liter...
...college friend from their years as undergrads at Brandeis). In the wider world, Friedman is a high-profile New York Times columnist and a trained scholar on Middle East affairs. He established himself as the leading popular commentator on globalization with his 1999 work “The Lexus and the Olive Tree,” which deservedly garnered acclaim for its accessible synthesis of globalization’s diverse effects and far-reaching possibilities. But “The World Is Flat” lacks its predecessor’s conceptual breadth and incisive exposition. The book often amuses...