Word: trunkful
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Waddah was still weak from a fever and barely able to stand when a guard relayed the good news: he was going home. He was hooded, bundled into the trunk of a car and driven around for an hour. This time there were no stops and no changing of vehicles. The hood was removed, the plastic bounds cut. "This is it," said one of the men, thrusting something into the breast pocket of his dishdasha and pulling him out of the trunk. "Thank God for your freedom." The car sped away before Waddah could get to his feet. He found...
Turner is testing 3,000 new varieties of bedding plants this year to help plant lovers identify the best of what's new, and he considers the Wollemi among the most unusual. Unlike other pine trees, which have a single trunk, the Wollemi pines, once fully grown, can have up to 100 trunks and stand more than 80 ft. tall. Hardiness has allowed the species to survive for millions of years, all the way back to when T. rex roamed the earth. "Its discovery is the equivalent of finding a dinosaur alive today," says Sally McGeoch, marketing manager for Wollemi...
...course, there are a few things to gripe about. The rear seats have enough leg room for a couple of pint-size 10-year olds. Trunk space is cozy-don't pack more than an overnight bag or two. And VW's lousy reputation for reliability suggests buyers shouldn't expect anything like the build quality of a Lexus (though VW does offer a 50,000-mile warranty to ease one's concerns). For the price, however, this is one model that Veedub can credibly say rocks...
First thing you notice about a girl: What she does with all that junk, all that junk inside that trunk...
...drugs. K'wan was still selling marijuana at the point where his Gangsta started to fly off the shelves. He moved out of public housing in 2004--the same year he signed a book deal. But he didn't leave everything behind. "In the morning I load up my trunk and hit the streets," says K'wan. "It's the same as when I was on the block hustling, except it's a different product. I hit the street vendors in the Bronx, Harlem and Brooklyn, talk to the kids and sign a few books...