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...wait a second. People have been packing the station wagon and heading off to college for decades. How is it that just four years ago, when Kenley Monson's mother Carol shipped her brother off to college, she took her son to Goodwill to buy what he needed? And when Carol struck out on her own great collegiate adventure 32 years ago, she went shopping in her parents' attic...
...Vous avez des armes à feu, du tabac où de l’alcool?” she asks me, intoning her vowels like a true Quebecoise. She eyes the contents of my Volvo station wagon suspiciously, thinking perhaps that I have stashed several kilos of hard drugs or maybe some explosives between my clothes...
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...
...Hasina prepared to leave, hand grenades began raining down on the crowd from the rooftops of nearby buildings. While bodyguards surrounded her, Hasina, whose father, mother and three brothers were assassinated in a military coup in 1975, began praying loudly. Her bodyguards swept her into a bulletproof sport-utility wagon and whisked her off to safety as gunfire smashed into the vehicle's sides. "Allah helped me," she told TIME. "He saved...
...neat, flexible seating configuration: the rear seats slide on an 8-in. track for extra legroom or more cargo space. Starting at $21,560, the Equinox stacks up competitively against such rivals as the Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4. Volvo, meanwhile, just launched an all-new wagon, the V50, featuring the automaker's typical sturdiness and premium safety. The burlier Volvo XC90 (with a V-8 on the way) also earns high marks for crashworthiness, with an enhanced crush-resistant roof, a roll-stability system and inflatable side curtains. Volvo's parent company, Ford, is launching a pair...