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...slow wear of tire treads or the blur of alcoholic vision that suddenly turns all your raging horsepower and tons of steel from an asset into a trap. Too much entropy can deliver you back into Newton's dread realm after all. It was a big, black American sedan that skidded up the mountain road where I live on Memorial Day night, climbed a guy wire and broke the telephone pole. The way the car came to rest -- lights blazing, leaning against the opposite side of the pole from where it hit, the driver dead in the backseat...
...Santa Barbara police department has an awesome new weapon in its arsenal: Blue Persuasion. To encourage contact with the community along State Street, the town's main drag, officers now cruise in a customized police sedan that sports a hip metallic blue paint job, murals, mag wheels and a booming stereo...
Delusions of grandeur are Sununu's biggest problem. He craves the challenge of public life but demands the perks of the corporate suite. His need for the trappings of power is so great that he chose to spend five hours enthroned in the back of a dark-windowed sedan rather than 45 minutes in steerage on the shuttle flight to New York...
...manufacturer sell too many cars? Lisa Stewart thinks so. Her $10 million lawsuit against BMW claims that the German automaker didn't keep its promise to limit the U.S. sales of its 1988 model M5 sedan to 500 cars. As a result, Stewart contends, the five-cylinder autos -- first introduced at $43,500 and later sold for $47,500 -- have failed to appreciate in value. Stewart, of Glen Ellyn, Ill., could be joined by other disgruntled M5 owners in the class-action suit, which alleges that BMW nearly tripled the number of cars in the edition. A BMW brochure stated...
Like Bush, Gates rises early: about 5 a.m. He runs three miles, showers, shellacs his white-gray hair and hops into the back of a black government sedan that waits outside his home in suburban Virginia. The driver hands over a packet of intelligence reports and diplomatic cables that moved overnight, and Gates scans these and the newspapers on his way to the White House. He usually eats lunch at his desk. He seldom gets home before...