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...dealer network, through the Home Depot. The chain has since sold more than 200,000 units, one of its most successful launches in lawn-and-garden gear. Even these beginner models, like the L130, have feature lists out of an auto showroom: "more leg room," "deluxe-comfort" seat, two-pedal automatic transmission. Jeff Barron, a power-equipment specialist at a Home Depot in McDonough, Ga., says some customers with modest yards want to impress the neighbors with the iconic brand: "There are people who buy one, keep it in the garage and have somebody else use it to cut their...
Squealing with delight, Bobby Chazen, 2, hops into a miniature 1957 Corvette and leans on the horn. Then he spins the steering wheel, flips on the radio and, giggling, steps on the gas pedal. Bobby has become an expert at putting his motor skills through their paces in the candy-red car, having been to its home, the Creative Discovery Museum in Chattanooga, Tenn., "nearly 100 times" since he was 5 months old. "When he knows we're going to the museum," Bobby's mom Candace Chazen says, "his eyes light up, and he puts on his little shoes...
...spent a lot of time Tuesday in Tomorrowland and Adventureland. I sat by Jack?s side and worked the pedal as he ?steered? our racecar around ?Indy Speedway.? It was great fun, and I realized that many of the venerables - a go-kart on a track, a float through a wonderland such as ?It?s a Small World? - are just as magic to a three-year-old as whatever the latest high-tech marvel is. Jack preferred the cars to the super-colorful and hyper-sensory ?Buzz Lightyear?s Space Ranger Spin,? which is essentially an arcade game with wheels...
Call it confidence, or perhaps bravado, but Dean is unrolling a new pedal-to-the-metal national strategy this week. As vital as Iowa and New Hampshire are in this front-loaded primary season, the campaign is already looking past those two contests. It bought 30 minutes of time after the Green Bay Packers game on Sunday to air a half-hour television program about Dean on the local Fox affiliate in Madison, Wis.--a state that does not hold its primary until Feb. 17, almost three weeks after New Hampshire's vote on Jan. 27. The campaign plans...
...weaves their shotgun triple-guitar formula and continue to deliver their moonshine-soaked tales with equal bouts of irony and reverence. With no less than three capable songwriters at their disposal, the songs occasionally sound better off the lyric sheet than through speakers. But when the band get their pedal steel and acoustic drawls all in a row, they forge some gin-u-ine heartbreakers...