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Soon we're relaxed enough to think about more important things, like what music to play and where to eat. I click on upcoming exits and find the nearest Boston Market. I scan a list of local radio stations to find some easy listening. For up-to-the-minute status on how far we have to go, I just hit a key. At last, we're having...
...door. The same thing happened at fund raisers across the country, converting what had been a steady stream of donations into a raging river. When Bush announced last week that he had raked in $36.25 million, the news instantly transformed the 2000 campaign. He had not only outraised his nearest G.O.P. rival, John McCain, 9 to 1, but raised double the $18.2 million collected by Al Gore, the sitting Vice President and Democratic heir apparent. And Bush is just getting started. On Friday, a top adviser confidently told TIME that the campaign's new fund-raising goal is $70 million...
...chef, the Baylis family of Tarrytown, N.Y., plans road trips around fun restaurants--for more on this delicious strategy, see Eat Your Way Across the U.S.A., by Jane and Michael Stern (Broadway Books; 1999). The Keenses, on the other hand, head for the salad bar at the nearest grocery store. Then there's the ham-sandwiches-in-the-cooler option. Whatever you choose, make sure there's plenty of it: in the words of one road hog, "If we ate as much at home as we eat on vacation, we'd all weigh 500 lbs." And don't forget...
Diana was a princess, but there are many princesses in Europe, none of whom ever came close to capturing the popular imagination the way she did. Princess Grace of Monaco was perhaps the nearest thing, but then she had really been a movie star, which surely provided the vital luster to her role as figurehead of a country that is little more than a gambling casino on the southern coast of France. The rather louche glamour of Monaco's royal family is nothing compared with the fading but still palpable grandeur of the British monarchy. To those who savor such...
Under the point system used to calculate the rankings, he was, with 40 points, a full 10 points ahead of his nearest competitor, and 20 points better than the No. 3 player...