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...days when I myself refused to leave the house without my chaps, my six-gun and my ten-gallon hat. Or rather, my two-gallon hat. I was six years old. I thought I was Marshal Dillon. Nowadays a successful yuppie won't leave the house without his four-wheel-drive sport-utility vehicle boasting 225 lb.-ft. of torque. He's 40 years old, and he thinks he's Mark Trail...
...went on strike today at a key plant which manufactures transmission for most GM vehicles made in North America. The walkout, the sixth this year, involves 2,800 member of UAW Local 909 from the automaker's Warren, Michigan facility. The workers are upset at company plans to transfer wheel-making operations from the Warren plant and replace them with work from the Buick City plant in Flint, which the automaker may shut down within months. Although talks are expected to resume today, GM officials fear that the strike could force its North American assembly plants to temporarily close shop...
...Bryants have a billboard-size NO TUNNEL sign in front of their split-level, four-bedroom house. But they can almost hear the bulldozer creeping closer, with bids on the roadway project due this week, and it isn't just Steve Wynn who's behind the wheel. If the bids are within projections, he will have New Jersey Governor Christie Whitman and Atlantic City Mayor James Whelan with him, all of them preaching the gospel of small personal sacrifices for the greater public good. If you build it, suckers will come. As will thousands of jobs, millions of dollars...
...whose very existence is secret. It occurred to me that the squeegee guys could be in such a prison. Maybe part of their sentence is to clean windshields over and over with a clean cloth and then decline the quarter offered them by the guard who sits behind the wheel...
...will snap a picture of both the car and the landscape, and by 6 p.m. on the West Coast, NASA hopes to release the image both to the press and on the Web mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/) After that, it will at last be time for Brian Cooper to take the wheel...