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Demand this year has leveled off, and retail RV prices are softer. Many dealers offer low-rate financing, and there's even a tax break: most RV loans can be considered second-home mortgages, with deductible interest. Now that will make you feel at home. --With reporting by Matt Baron/Chicago, Elizabeth Coady/Fort Wayne and Laura Randall/Cincinnati

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure Industry: Not Your Dad's RV | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

...hostilities in Iraq, the 13-km-wide Strait of Gibraltar south of Spain got a new security system. NATO began quietly escorting allied civilian ships through the Strait to prevent a repeat of the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in October 2000 - when 17 U.S. sailors died - on a softer, commercial target. British Lieut. Commander Harvey Burwin, a Naples - based NATO official, told Time that "a tangible threat has been identified" in the Strait. "There will always be shipping in the Strait, which can provide [terrorists] with cover or an alibi for being there," Burwin says. One or two times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meanwhile, Back at the Other War | 4/6/2003 | See Source »

This week, the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) stepped up enforcement of bike-safety laws, targeting those riding at night without lights. But the crackdown has a softer side—violations often bring only a warning and carry with them the possibility of a bright surprise...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Step Up Bike Safety | 4/2/2003 | See Source »

...part of what made Mister Rogers' Neighborhood great and unique is that, for all its beautiful days in the neighborhood, it was also the darkest work of popular culture made for preschoolers since perhaps the Brothers Grimm. Mister Rogers was softer than anyone else in children's TV because so many of the messages he had to impart were harder. That your parents might someday decide not to live together anymore. That dogs and guppies and people all someday will die. That sometimes you will feel ashamed and other times you will be so mad you will want to bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Was Not Afraid of the Dark | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

Pacifier’s attempts at softer ballads aren’t as successful, with the notable exception of the catchy “Everything.” With its explosive chorus, it’s possibly the best song on the album...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 3/7/2003 | See Source »

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