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Margaret Dell is 96, but you'd need to check the birth date on her driver's license to believe it. Sporting a baseball cap with a Harley-Davidson logo on it, she is the designated driver for her seventysomething friends who no longer feel comfortable behind the wheel. Last winter a snowfall threatened to keep her from her appointed automotive rounds. She took a shovel and cleared a path to her car. Driving keeps Dell young. That and knitting. She constantly knits. She makes baby booties and caps and blankets for friends and family whenever a baby arrives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Live To Be 100 | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

Ralph Gilles is showing off his Chrysler 300C, and as he points out details like chrome accents on the door trim, he insists that he has just one complaint: "It doesn't come with dubs." In hip-hop car lingo, dubs are oversize, 20-in. wheels. And Gilles is a big-wheel guy. An amateur racer, he hits the track on weekends with his 10-cylinder Dodge Viper--a nerve-racking hobby for his wife, the mother of his two young kids. As soon as he got his 300C for street use, he supersized it with black dubs. "It looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chrysler's Bling King | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

...however, suggests that the merger is finally paying off with a product that may generate profit growth. The 300 and other cars based on its German-inspired rear-wheel-drive platform--like the Dodge Magnum that hit dealerships in June--appear to be selling on their merits, rather than being pushed by profit-killing finance incentives. "It looks more like a Rolls-Royce or a Bentley," says John Dickens, 64, who traded in his Lexus SUV, worth $65,000 new, for a 300C at a dealership in Athens, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chrysler's Bling King | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

...dangerous. Miami, however, is a land of U-turns both physical and psychological. The streets are all long and straight and you’re always driving in a cardinal direction. So when you want to turn around you just pull into the left lane and throw the wheel as far as it goes...

Author: By Jonathan P. Abel, | Title: U-Turn Into a Monster | 8/13/2004 | See Source »

...Talking Panda's software can be downloaded into the iPod. It provides more than 300 commonly used phrases, which are instantly organized into categories such as "dining," "shopping," "emergency" and "making friends." You can access the needed phrase in English using the touch-wheel scroll device and then clicking on the sentence you want. The translation appears on the screen and is also recited clearly through your headphones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech Watch | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

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