Because I just want to wrap Max up in bubble wrap and not let anything touch him.

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When I left my couch to do something in another room, I had to pump the volume to its max setting so that I could comfortably hear from across my (very small) apartment.

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And Max I think will admit he was in pretty rough shape at the time.

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"I never thought I'd be involved in supercomputing, " says Max Fuller, chairman of trucker U.S. Xpress, which employs 1, 100 at its Chattanooga headquarters.

FORBES: Back on Track

The EPA does not, and cannot, verify mileage numbers for the majority of light-duty vehicles (though I imagine there's a Ford C-Max Hybrid on the dynamometers in Michigan right now).

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What do these have in common: Google, Blind Date, China, India, Wi-Fi and (just to throw a curve) Max Oshman, the 17-year-old Web designer I wrote about in the last issue?

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While I power-shopped Max Mara sale racks, my husband, Tom, spent a record 900 euros in 20 minutes at a stylish men's boutique and emerged looking like Ahhnold at a ski lodge.

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