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...even spent the night in tents--for a chance to watch the proceedings in person. Perhaps they weren't so different from the drivers who had paused at a rest stop off Florida's Ronald Reagan Turnpike the day before to have their picture taken with the Ryder truck coming up from West Palm Beach. But the court watchers got much more for their trouble...
...merely dimpled. Friday was a day unlike any other since the election--unlike the past month of candidates with their dueling speeches and seas of American flags, of squawking pundits on the cable channels, certainly unlike the silly spectacle of the previous day, when news choppers chased a Ryder truck full of ballots as it trundled up a highway for eight hours. On Friday we saw how muscular reasoning can cut through the noise...
...Escape sport utility, expected to get 40 m.p.g. By then, Toyota's hybrid minivan, the Estima, will probably have reached the U.S. market, along with a hybrid Honda Civic. Proving that hybrids are not necessarily environmentally virtuous, DaimlerChrysler has announced a hybrid version of its monster Durango truck that would get only 18 m.p.g.--a hybrid muscle...
...need ultra-high-mileage vehicles to compensate. Ford's chairman, William Ford, has predicted that hybrids could account for 20% of the U.S. market in a decade. Beyond the need for fuel economy, however, looms the urgency of curbing greenhouse gases--a quarter of which result from car and truck emissions...
...wrote the stinging dissent) Ginsburg, Souter and Breyer - felt just the opposite, that the only harm being done in this instance was to Al Gore if the counting was stopped. They also seemed to give deference to the Florida Supreme Court, something the majority didn't have much truck with. Breyer declared the stay a dangerous and self-fulfilling prophecy...