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...religious. It’s also a lot more than just white picket fences and a sitcom lifestyle. The crucifix was the first of several large symbols of Christianity that I stumbled across on my journey. One day between cities I was cruising along in my little blue Saturn when I started noticing tie dyed billboards that simply read “JESUS.” The signs, with their bright green and purple swirls, looked like a Sunday school arts and crafts project on an acid trip. These were peculiar enough on their own, but then I saw what...
...customization extends to gearhead items like air intakes, enhanced exhaust systems and rear spoilers. As Jill Lajdziak, a Saturn executive, notes, "Many young buyers would rather buy an affordable vehicle and then have a couple of thousand dollars to invest in a higher level of performance...
...buyers to customize by offering easy, accessible options online. In a study published this month, Forrester Research analyst Baba Sheddy found that 66% of prospective buyers customized vehicles while researching price online. In a bid to turn speculative customizers into real ones, Toyota's Scion, Honda's Element and Saturn's Ion will let customers order personalized cars on their websites with touches like aluminum pedals and gearshifts, and springs that adjust the car's height. Because young buyers "want something that says, 'I'm unique,'" says Toyota's Jim Farley, the youth-targeted Scion will offer 40 accessories...
...students who got out to Wingaersheek Beach in Gloucester, on Massachusetts’s Cape Ann, saw not only the brilliant meteor shower, but also Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn...
Using a computerized climate model, the scientists calculated the consequences. "Like the rings of Saturn," suggests Boslough, "this ring cast a shadow over the tropics, drastically affecting the global climate." And unlike the dinosaurs' dust shroud, he says, the Eocene ring and its shadow persisted until the orbiting chunks were slowed by the upper fringes of the atmosphere, then finally dropped back to Earth. --By Leon Jaroff