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...deadly. Ralston was intrigued. He told the paper he quit the Intel job when he couldn't take three weeks to go climbing in Alaska. Since then, he has made a life of exploring the outdoors and following the jam bands Phish and String Cheese Incident while working at Ute Mountaineer in Aspen...
...reason is that Baden-Württemberg, whose capital is the car-making city of Stuttgart, is one of the most prosperous states in Germany, with an unemployment rate of only 5.2%, the country's lowest. The cdu's Teufel runs on this successful record, while Ute Vogt, the sdp leader, claims Teufel's 10 years as head of the state government has left him out of touch...
Pickup Truck: bakkie (South Africa), ute (Australia), utility vehicle (New Zealand...
...time sitting outside and getting the lay of the land by scoping out passing cars. They see somebody in an old clunker and know the rider's just scraping to get by in another low-wage gig. They spot somebody in one of those jazzed-up numbers, a sport-ute or a low-riding classic, and it's a good hunch the occupant is a roller in the drug game. In the end, of course, it doesn't really matter much how passersby earn their keep. So long as they slow down a bit when they cruise Parnell and watch...
...meant to defend the minivan, but I see I've only maligned the sport-ute. It's hard to avoid. A car, says the cliche, is indelibly an extension of self. With minivans the extension is straightforward and uncomplicated--a means of transportation for housewives and family men (family persons?). For the upper-middle-class American man circa 1997, the cliche is undone. The sport-utility vehicle is not an expression but a denial--a carapace, a hard shell concealing the soft center within...