Word: volvo
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...ends them ... well, when the stimulants wear off. Immediately after waking, she starts the first of several loads of laundry, sees her husband off to work, fixes breakfast for her kids (she calls them "very high maintenance, very demanding") and then herds them into her Volvo station wagon for a long day of lessons, camps and therapies. At night, she makes dinner for the family but not for herself. She says she's just too harried. Not until 10 p.m. or so, when the children are in bed and the house is finally quiet, does the speedy Gonzalez relax...
...drive a Volvo and you do yoga, you are pretty much a Democrat. If you drive a Lincoln or a BMW and own a gun, you're voting George Bush...
...drive a Volvo and you do yoga, you are pretty much a Democrat. If you drive a Lincoln or a BMW and own a gun, you're voting George Bush." KEN MEHLMAN, manager of Bush's re-election campaign, characterizing the divide in the electorate...
...hurt to have a second pair of eyes. Volvo plans to introduce a blind-spot warning system, which sees where you can't, for most of its 2006 models, out next year. A digital camera under the driver's side-view mirror watches for oncoming vehicles and triggers a flashing light as a vehicle approaches. For lane drifters (you know who you are), Infiniti is debuting a lane-departure warning system in its 2005 FX SUVs and 2006 M sedans. A camera on the rearview mirror recognizes lane markers and triggers an alert when you get offtrack...
While many of my classmates spent their summers living in cities or suburbs—immersed in technology—I packed my old jeans and my dad’s chain saw into the back of my aged stick-shift Volvo wagon and drove up Route 91 to Canada. Though I have been making this trip, alone or with family, ever since I can remember, the drive has never been the same since 9-11, a heart-punch to every American, even those far from urban life...