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...October, a few days before he will drop out of the race, Republican Senator Sam Brownback is lost and late, being driven around Iowa by a college intern in the Brownback family's Chrysler minivan. He is looking at a map, pumping his own gas, paying with his own credit card and then running into McDonald's. "$7.15? For a yogurt parfait and a small cheeseburger?" Brownback asks the cashier, who explains that the college kid got a Big Mac. "Oh," he says, and drags a $20 bill and a quarter from his pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Run of an Also Ran | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...notice that your co-workers or friends have church groups to help teach their kids values and to be able to lean on." So every week, Willey, who was raised Buddhist and says she has never believed in God, and her husband pack their four kids into their blue minivan and head to the Humanist Community Center in Palo Alto, Calif., for atheist Sunday school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sunday School for Atheists | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

...perhaps not all of them. Jeffrey Miron, the department’s director of undergraduate studies, says he drives a red ’98 Toyota Sienna minivan “well encrusted with chocolate milk spills, French fries, moldy golf shoes, and the like...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Harvard Showroom Is Open | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

...chores and staying close to the kids emotionally and physically. (Katie, we learn, breastfed them until they were 2 1/2.) "I guess, yeah, I should be in the mood every time I clean out the gecko cage!" Dave yells, ranting sarcastically about the erotic stimulation of bedtime stories and minivan shopping. "Our entire life," Katie tells him, "that's what you just trashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Kid Nation Divided | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

...effort to rid their home of lice. Finally Steven mentioned what he considered an embarrassing problem to his sister, who assured him, "Everyone gets lice," and told him to call Penny Warner, owner of the Texas Lice Squad. For two days and about $1,000, Warner (who has a minivan-based operation in their hometown and charges $55 an hour) manually combed the nits out of the hair of both Deutser children and did the same for their housekeeper and her daughter. "We were so blown away with the experience and the emotional drain the lice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parenting Subcontractors | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

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