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...Tampa, Fla., or La Jolla, Calif., say, a bus depreciates quickly, beginning with the first turn of the wheels. It loses about 15% of its value the first year on the road and an additional 10% every year following. A set of tires costs $5,000, and a wash-and-wax job runs about $360. On average a bus travels about seven miles on a gallon of diesel fuel. To paraphrase J.P. Morgan on the subject of yachts, if you have to ask which way fuel prices are headed, you can't afford...
...there anything disagreeable about the bus life? "Think of living in your hallway, parked in your driveway," poses Patricia Upchurch, a bus person from Whidbey Island, Wash. Most bus people spend at least a couple of months a year back home to stretch out. Occasionally a bus person leaves the life permanently--one dropout became paranoid about the risk of ripping the roof off under an overpass. Some other kinds of motor homes have lost their tops that way, but the record is not clear on whether a bus has. (If one does get stuck under an overpass, the driver...
...communications director for a San Francisco nonprofit organization, "and it costs as much as a used car." Toussaint got her first hearing aid more than 15 years ago. It lasted 10 years--until she left it in the pocket of a pair of jeans she threw into the wash. The replacement cost $4,000. For many people the cost is doubled, since audiologists typically advise patients to buy two hearing aids if they have a loss in both ears. But many hearing-aid providers offer installment plans...
GONZAGA BULLDOGS Spokane, Wash. Record: 24-6 Sample Fight Song Lyric: "Onward, we cry!/Conquer or die!" Reason to Root for Them: They're actually good
...state-of-the-art techniques being used to explore for oil, together with the realization by oil-producing companies that they cannot be reckless in their approach, suggest to me that we can have both the wilderness and the oil at the same time. MICHAEL J. MAEHL Kennewick, Wash...