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...ratings with the homecoming-themed "Back from the Outback" in two weeks!). For outracing his tribemates through a sort of Greatest Hits obstacle course (I think these guys are running out of new ideas, aside from putting Probst in blue this week), he got a Brand New Pontiac Aztec, With a Tent That Goes On the Back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Survivor:' The Sugar is Dead. Long Live the Spice. | 4/26/2001 | See Source »

...wares into the same one-line classified ad as the rest of us. The site's internal search engine is the kind of leveling tool Karl Marx never conceived of. Ask for an automobile and eBay is just as likely to turn up your neighbors' five-year-old Pontiac as GM's latest top-of-the-range four-wheeler. The effect is as pleasing as browsing in a bookstore where new and used titles mingle democratically on the shelves, arranged by their content and not by the glossiness of their covers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bidding for Greatness | 4/4/2001 | See Source »

...nationwide. Yet the sissies had won too, and rules were in place to slow the cars, but the changes seemed to be making the racing more dangerous. An earlier crash looked like an Armageddon of a wreck: 19 cars careering around, smashing into one another, Tony Stewart's Pontiac soaring through the air, ripping the hood off another car, metal clanging, a 16-minute red flag to clean up the mess--and only a bum shoulder, Stewart's, as a result. Then on the last turn of the last lap, Earnhardt's famous black No. 3 Chevy Monte Carlo plowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DALE EARNHARDT: 1951-2001: The Last Lap | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

Harmanjit Singh and Keetha Mock would seem to have just about nothing in common. Singh, 25, is a bachelor, a graduate of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology and a computer programmer for Lucent Technologies in California's Silicon Valley. Mock, 39, is a divorced mother of three in Pontiac, Mich., and a former welfare client who until last Christmas had never worked steadily. But in their diversity, they exemplify one reason for the amazing length and strength of the U.S. boom. Despite all the recent gyrations in the stock market, the longest economic expansion in U.S. history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Work We Go | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

...program it runs with Kelly Services, she missed her first interview, telling herself, "This ain't going to happen." A counselor, however, rescheduled the appointment and even drove Mock to it. The week before Christmas, Mock was hired as an administrative assistant at a General Motors truck plant in Pontiac, answering phones, setting up meetings and handling other secretarial duties. With fringe benefits, which she had never got before, she earns about three times as much as she did in any previous job. Two sons, high school dropouts who Mock says had been "just laying around the house," have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Work We Go | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

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