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...Brother OnStar is up there watching: advisers are alerted and call in assistance when the air bags of an OnStar-equipped car deploy. They can also unlock doors when keys get lost, diagnose engine problems or even find a stolen car. Last fall an OnStar adviser tracked a GMC Yukon stolen from a Battle Creek, Mich., dealership, enabling police to arrest four men within 10 minutes of the call to OnStar requesting help...
When Kelvin Giles bought his lumbering 2001 GMC Yukon last spring, he could hardly believe his luck. The Phoenix, Ariz., technology consultant stood to receive $23,000 in rebates on the $50,000 vehicle, compliments of the state government's alternative-fuels program, which threatens to cost Arizona an incredible $680 million--or 11% of the entire state budget. Says Giles: "I always put this under the heading of too good to be true...
...lines pervade the film. Mystery, Alaska has enough quirkiness to avoid the deadly trap; scenes turn the audience upside-down with laughter, jolt them with unexpected sadness, and energize them with pride, enthusiasm and even team spirit. This Florida native seriously considered moving to a small town near the Yukon Territory to take up ice hockey after seeing the movie...
...assassination, however, R.F.K. entered a long and deep depression. "Without Ethel," a friend once said, "Bobby might well have gone off the deep end." He found some solace in Sophocles and Aeschylus, but it was only in March 1965, when he scaled Mount Kennedy, the 13,900-ft. Yukon peak, that he was able to overcome his own darkness...
...consumers the news couldn't be better. Carmakers tooled up for exponential SUV demand, and now find themselves so overstocked that they're laying on goodies to keep moving the metal. GM, which a few years ago sold virtually every Suburban at list price, has incentives on its Suburban, Yukon and Tahoe lines. Ford is offering low-rate financing on the Explorer, and DaimlerChrysler has lowered lease prices on its Jeep Grand Cherokee and is cutting production...