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...approach to life believe is very useful comes in the form of the admonishment, "Don't reinvent the wheel." Most often we use the analogy to remind us to ask for advice from someone who knows something about a problem that we're facing. Maybe, we can't get a window screen back onto its hinges on the window. After cutting our hands and wondering why someone hasn't come up with a better screen, we ask a roommate who lived in the room before...
...worries. "In America gasoline prices are so cheap they're virtually irrelevant," says a Mercedes official. "And in Europe the high cost of gasoline doesn't play a role with those who can afford these vehicles." (In Japan, though, Toyota three weeks ago unveiled a compact-size four-wheel-drive vehicle called the RAV4 that gets about 30 m.p.g. and has a sticker price of about...
Jacqueline Bouvier's world was far from the wheel-and-deal politics that her future husband cut his teeth on. Hers was a background of manicured lawns, riding lessons and outings at the ballet. The Bouviers were an old Catholic family entrenched in New York society; her father, known as "Black Jack" because of his dark good looks, lived recklessly both in the stock market and in his dashing private life. Several of the men whom Jackie later found attractive -- her husband, her father-in-law Joseph Kennedy and, later, Aristotle Onassis -- bore some resemblance to her glamorous papa...
...Memorial Drive was not built to accommodate 18-wheel vehicles," O'Brien says. "There are public safety concerns. It's also inappropriate in terms of long-term stewardship of a park area...
After the disastrous weekend, the FIA board of directors met in emergency session, but the only decision it made was one designed to improve safety in the pits -- a reaction to a relatively minor mishap in which a wheel flew off a car and hurtled into the Ferrari pit, injuring three mechanics. The federation also announced that it would study the possibility of installing speed controls on Formula One cars, and that it would consider requiring the installation of air bags to prevent the kind of head injuries that apparently killed Ratzenberger and Senna. After the race, Italian officials launched...