The first factory station wagon, according to Stationwagons.com, was a 1937 Ford Model A. Station wagons hit their peak in the 1960s, when it seem like every family had 2.2 children and a big wagon with a stretched wheelbase and hideous fake wood siding.

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The original station wagons were literally that wagon bodies built on a Ford Model T chassis used to transport people and luggage from a train station.

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There's a classic neon McDonald's sign, a scale model of an old Texaco service station where kids can play at fixing a car and a mock-up of an early Holiday Inn, complete with cheesy laminated coffee tables.

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Last year, says NCC executive director Luis Morales, a survey by the Social Weather Station found that Rizal has become a leading role model for boys. (Girls chose their mothers.) Previously, youths were only seen as interested in pop and movie stars.

CNN: Glancing Back

Al-Assad, interviewed Thursday by an Iranian TV station, said the international effort to deal with Libya last year is "not the model to settle" the crisis.

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One to watch, says Charles McGhee, is Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia, where a local newspaper and radio station have moved on campus, providing what's described as the 'medical residency model' - training journalists on the job, as has long happened with doctors.

BBC: Paper Tigers

This lasered Eva Herzigova, a model clad in a black push-up bra, on London's Battersea power station and plastered her across roadside billboards and bus shelters, photographed life-sized against the backdrop of the local street.

ECONOMIST: Star turn