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...that he tailors the cut of what he says to meet the tastes of the audience and the moment. Asked on Earth Day whether he owns a gas-gobbling SUV, the champion of higher fuel-efficiency standards first said no, then admitted under questioning that, yes, that was a Suburban parked at his Sun Valley, Idaho, vacation house. Next, he distanced himself from his own driveway: "The family has it. I don't have it." It was a far different story, however, when Kerry visited car-loving Detroit last February. Back then, he exulted to local reporters about how much...
Greece shrugged, but the rest of the world shuddered. The three bombs that went off just before dawn in the Athens district of Kallithea last Wednesday gutted one side of a police station, shattered windows up and down a leafy suburban street and jarred residents from their predawn slumber - but they did not faze Maria Moirani. The Athenian housewife calmly dropped off her 8-year-old son at a nearby school that same morning. "I could have made more elaborate bombs than these guys," she scoffed. Athens sees scores of such attacks a year; Mary Bossi, a terrorism expert...
...year ago, Ruth Lundquist and Darcy Olson were working moms struggling to get dinner on the table for their families. Today the suburban Minneapolis, Minn., residents are putting dinner on the table for hundreds of people every month. Their new business, Let's Dish, is one of a growing number of meal-assembly services across the U.S. that help busy amateur chefs whip up a month of gourmet entrees in a couple of hours...
...prefab meals are women. A few men show up, some with their wives as a date night. Then there are the people making meals for their elderly parents or college students looking to restock their refrigerators. Taste and convenience are the main draws. Says Laurie Stoltenberg, 40, of suburban Minneapolis, a mother of three with her own jewelry-bead business and a monthly customer of Let's Dish: "I like the idea that I'm putting a meal on the table that looks like I'm cooking from scratch--which I did, only not that night...
...family has it. I don't have it." SENATOR JOHN KERRY, who had said he doesn't own an SUV, responding to a reporter's question about the Chevrolet Suburban he has been seen riding in, which he says belongs to his wife...