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...This was supposed to be the easy one. The government hasn't significantly bumped up its CAFE standards (currently 27.5 mpg for cars and 20.7 mpg for SUVs and minivans) since 1984, long before the gas-guzzling soccer-mom-mobiles completely took over our nation's highways and byways. It's generally seen as a not-too-onerous way of prodding the auto industry to help conserve gasoline without resorting to that economically preferable but politically suicidal alternative...
...will earn $12 million over three years, is the seventh of eight children raised by a single mother who supported her kids by cleaning motel rooms. When asked how he would spend his paycheck, Brown (with NBA commissioner David Stern) said, "I've got to take care of Mom. You cannot give your mom enough...
CHARGED. PAULA POUNDSTONE, 41, suit-wearing stand-up comedian and regular panelist on To Tell the Truth; with child endangerment and three counts of committing a lewd act on a girl under the age of 14; in Los Angeles. A habitual foster mom, Poundstone has taken in several children since 1993, and she adopted two in 1997. If convicted, she could face as much as 13 years in prison...
...night as usual, quickly falling into a deep sleep while her only daughter drained the night away. “I’m not running a hotel here,” remained her response to all off-hours requests, despite my reply of, “But Mom, I’m bleeding.” To her credit, my surgery did extend her on-duty hours from 9 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., a time determined by the beginning of the Letterman monologue, during which my mother no longer has children...
...surrounded by her 85-year-old husband, her three kids, her son-in-law and daughter-in-law and her five grandkids-our three and Gail and Scott's two. There's a lot of talk about all the recent trips to the hospital by everyone here, and about Mom's hip, but the acute focus is on Caroline. She's tired but happy, still with no appetite and still with an achy neck from either the ball or the brace...