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...bottom of all this, editor at large David Von Drehle--who makes his home in Kansas City, Mo.--took off in his family's dented minivan for a 750-mile (1,200 km) trip across the center of Missouri. Missouri, he notes, has backed the winner in every presidential election in the past 100 years except one. "I've done this sort of rolling interview before," he says, "and what struck me as different this time was that everyone seemed a little nervous to be talking politics." In general, David found a good number of blue collar white voters...
...carried her down the steep track from their home until he found a police truck to take them to a clinic several miles away. The doctor there urged the family to rush Harakatmo to Badakhshan's only hospital, in Faizabad, the provincial capital. Harakatmo's husband hired a ramshackle minivan for the journey--a five-hour ride along rutted dirt roads. On the way, they stopped while Harakatmo's mother-in-law delivered the baby. It was already dead; the tiny corpse was wrapped in a cloth and placed next to Harakatmo. Lying in the hospital that evening, she said...
...have ever struggled with a difficult decision - new job vs. new boyfriend, sports car vs. minivan, read the book vs. see the movie - you have likely also been offered a heap of decision-making wisdom. Make a list of pros and cons. Go with your gut. Sleep...
...Their message was none too subtle: Congress has done nothing to address soaring gas prices, and the people's representatives shouldn't be starting their August recess until they do. One member even drove his minivan, family included, all the way from Illinois, arriving at 3 a.m., so he could get his turn to lambaste the Democrats for not allowing a vote on a bill to expand offshore drilling. To drive their point home, members waved empty gas cans, charts of fuel prices and blown-up photos of Speaker Nancy Pelosi...
Some years, size matters. Remember Josh, the Newfoundland the size of a minivan, which took the top prize four years ago? Some years are precious and prim, a papillon with attitude. But in this age of Authenticity, the beagle romped past the poodles, all fluffed and clipped, and the terrier, whose kin have taken Best in Show more than 40 times. Sometimes change beats experience. "I'm lucky to be at the end of his leash," said his trainer, Aaron Wilkerson, as Uno proceeded to chew on the microphones of reporters hoping for an interview...