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If only he played it this safe with his journalism ethics… Fully-vaccinated CNN anchor Chris Cuomo has taken mask-wearing to absurd heights — covering his face as he cruised all alone in a convertible with the top down amid the latest scandal to hit his family.

Well this came out of nowhere. After years of pleading from PC enthusiasts, Microsoft finally revealed an ultra-premium Surface laptop, dubbed Surface Book, at its hardware event on Tuesday—a portable PC designed to embrace Windows 10’s most cutting-edge features, and one that’s just oozing style. If the Surface Pro is a tablet that can replace your laptop, as Microsoft’s marketing crowed last year, does that make the Surface laptop a laptop that can replace your tablet that replaces your laptop? Not quite. Both aim for different targets. While the Surface tablets were initially introduced to highlight the sort of mobile...

It's 1964, and the Ford Mustang is coming, but it hasn't arrived in any owners' hands yet. People all over the country are excited about Ford's affordable new sporty car. Then Gail Wise rolls down the street in a powder blue convertible and everyone loses it. This is the first Ford Mustang ever sold to a customer, and it's still in the hands of the woman who bought it out from under a tarp in the back room of Johnson Ford. The dealer sold the car before it was officially on sale. Over the years the car has seen a...

The yuan is likely to be fully convertible and on the way to being one of the world's major currencies by 2020, according to some experts. China's leading stock exchanges are also likely to be opened up to foreign investors and Chinese fund managers will have an impact on markets around the world. Stuart Leckie, who runs Hong Kong-based consultancy Stirling Finance and has 30 years' experience in the pensions and investment industry in the region, says the next decade will be pivotal as China begins to wield its influence on the world's financial system. "I would expect the yuan...

Yep, I'm a ragtop man BY DAVE BARRY (This classic Dave Barry column was originally published on Feb. 23, 1997.) I got a convertible. Now I know what you're going to say. You're going to say: ``Dave, you pathetic fool, you're 49 and you're having a midlife crisis. Trade that thing in immediately and get a car more suitable for a person your age, such as a 1910 Hupmobile with air bags.'' No, darn it! I LOVE my convertible! I've ALWAYS WANTED a convertible! For 33 years I've been driving boring cars, starting with my mom's Plymouth Valiant, which was...

FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- AMR Corp. (NYSE: AMR - News) announced that due to the state of current market conditions, it has decided not to sell a convertible debt offering launched earlier today. "With the significant improvement we have seen in AMR's operating results beginning in May, and with our strong cash balance of more than $2.7 billion, we felt it made no sense to proceed with this transaction in market conditions as they evolved today, and which are at odds with the growing improvement of our company," said AMR's Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer...

Volkswagen of America Inc. on Friday offered the first official glimpse at the convertible version of its New Beetle. Volkswagen hasn't yet released pricing for the convertible Beetle, but it features the same rounded looks as its hardtop siblings, but with a fabric roof, and uses the same four-cylinder engines. Volkswagen has sold more than 320,000 New Beetle sedans in the United States since the car's 1998 North American launch. Built at the company's Puebla, Mexico, assembly plant, the Beetle convertible is expected to arrive in dealerships by the end of the year.

The 1957 Cadillac Convertible Shown Is A Part Of The Imperial Palace Collection Of Antique And Historic Cars Featured At The Imperial Palace Hotel In Las Vegas Nevada. There's almost nothing as enjoyable as top-down motoring. Sure, it can also be a drag: It's always a bummer when you have an electronic cloth-top, it starts to rain and only then do you discover that a fuse has blown and the lid won't close. That's a relatively rare thing, but, unfortunately, we have firsthand knowledge. And, most of the time, topless cars remind us of what has always been cool about...