It's the era of sexy moms and alternadads, and now the automakers want to do their part to make sure parents don't feel frumpy. For nearly two decades, the ungainly minivan, with its cavernous seating and multiple cupholders, was the only real option for families with kids, pets, gear, and places to go. But don't look now–there's been a minivan-ishing act going on. Since peaking in 1995 at 8.5 percent, minivans' share of the U.S. car market has dipped below 6 percent, according to Power Information Network. And it's likely to keep falling.
Of all the depressing statistics emanating from President Bush's invasion of Iraq, this obscure but important figure stands out: 60,000 marriages rent asunder by this war. The Marriage President, who proposed spending billions of federal dollars on a healthy-marriage initiative, may well be doing more to destroy formerly healthy marriages by sending hundreds of thousands of Americans off to war and then not properly counseling them on how to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) when they come home.
Sen. Olympia Snowe, a Maine Republican, will play a pivotal role in passing climate change legislation in the Senate, according to congressional insiders.
AP - Encouraged by cooler temperatures and calmer winds, firefighters were battling a wind-whipped blaze early Monday that earlier chewed through thousands of acres of parched hillside in what is shaping up to be one of the driest years ever recorded in Southern California.
AP - The world's most powerful nations failed to agree on new sanctions against Iran amid reports that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants to put Tehran's case for a nuclear program before the U.N. Security Council.
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