Technically, pregnancy is one of the most ordinary things in the world. After all, every single person on Earth has firsthand experience with it (since we all had to come out of someone’s womb). And yet, even though it happens every day, pregnancy also remains extremely mysterious. Sometimes, it’s mysterious in an awe-inspiring way: There’s a kind of alchemy that …
Read More »Little Land Bruisers: 1998 Compact SUVs Compared
From the May 1998 issue of Car and Driver. “To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.” —Sir Isaac Newton Newton’s 311-year-old law works outside the physics lab. Consider the President’s job-approval ratings following the Lewinsky, uh, exposure, or the explosion of I-Hate-Gates websites in the wake of Microsoft’s runaway marketing success. Newton’s law also works in the …
Read More »‘Bad parenting fee’ at Georgia restaurant sparks debate online
Retribution is on the menu. A restaurant in rural Georgia apparently out of patience with unruly young customers and their unconcerned moms and dads left diners everywhere in shock recently, after news of a dining surcharge — for bad parenting — went viral. The Toccoa Riverside Restaurant in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where diners can feast on fresh, local rainbow trout prepared …
Read More »This Carry-on Backpack Is Perfect for Long Trips
After putting the finishing touches on the itinerary for my month-long trip around Central Europe, I could almost feel my feet starting to get sore already. With the prospect of hours and hours of walking in the near future, I knew a comfortable, well-built bag would make my life a thousand times easier. Anyone who’s traveled around Europe will tell …
Read More »Trump valued holdings at ‘whatever number’ he picked, Michael Cohen testifies
NEW YORK, Oct 24 (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen testified on Tuesday that he manipulated the values of the former U.S. president’s real estate properties to match “whatever number Mr. Trump told us.” Testifying as a key witness in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ civil fraud case against Trump, Cohen said Trump tasked him …
Read More »1994 SuperTuner Showdown: Aftermarket Monsters
From the February 1994 issue of Car and Driver. Put any car guy under the microscope, zoom down through his polite and civilizing layers to where the corpuscles flow red hot, and there burns The Universal Fantasy: You get a surpassingly neat car, then you make it even neater. This is a field trip into that fantasyland. But first, let’s …
Read More »YouTube parent advisor Ruby Franke charged with on child abuse
A Utah woman who gave online parenting advice via a once-popular YouTube channel was charged Friday with six felony counts of aggravated child abuse after two of her six children were found abused and malnourished, authorities said. Ruby Franke, whose now-defunct channel “8 Passengers” chronicled her family life, was arrested Wednesday night in the southern Utah city of …
Read More »How to Plan a Trip to Panama
Our helicopter swooped skyward with an easy bound and Panama City came into view almost instantly — hundreds of gleaming skyscrapers silhouetted against the Pacific. A dozen ships queued neatly, waiting to enter the world’s most aesthetically pleasing marvel of engineering: the Panama Canal. As we zipped above the waterway, I was awed by the audacity of its creation. The …
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