Word: minivanning
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Last Friday, I was riding through central New Jersey, seated in a minivan next to my 8-year-old cousin, Andrew. He had just recently begun to enjoy reading, and was curious about the newspaper in my hands. Andrew was drawn to the image of an alien accompanying the lead story of the day: the mass suicide of the Heaven's Gate cult. He then began to read aloud what they had left on their web page: "As was promised--the keys to Heaven's Gate are here again in Ti and Do as they were in Jesus...
...select this as the "Machine of the Year" doesn't make sense [TECHNOLOGY BUYER'S GUIDE, Nov. 25]. There is more to home computing than playing one of Nintendo's five neat-o video games. For family transportation, would you recommend dirt bikes as cheap, exciting alternatives to a minivan? TODD SPANGLER New York City...
Fall is normally new-car season in Detroit. But an outbreak of labor strife at General Motors' plants in Canada has cast into doubt the rollout of GM's all-new Chevrolet minivan and other 1997 models. All production was halted in Canada last week after 28,500 members of the Canadian Auto Workers union walked out in a strike that has deprived some U.S. plants of vital parts. Without a settlement, analysts say, the company may have to close its 24 U.S. parts-and-assembly plants by the end of the month...
Hummel went the extra mile--400 of them, in fact--for Sandra and Emerito Hernandez, who were driving to Cleveland, Ohio, to seek treatment for their daughter Desiree, 6, who needs a heart and lung transplant. When their minivan's broken alternator couldn't be fixed in time for their appointment--and they couldn't afford to rent a car--Hummel drove them to Cleveland himself. "Good people are scarce," says Sandra. "He's Superman...
...While your rental car is being squeegeed by a helpful road-side window cleaner, you will come face to face with a Maps of the Stars' Homes stand on the corner and inevitably be offered one for sale. Hey, it beats the Tours of the Stars' Homes, given by minivan...