Word: chained
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...bypass will route traffic around Fort Madison. So the true secret of the town's success, then, can be found every Thursday morning at the sinfully addictive Ivy Bake Shoppe, where Martha Wolf and Susan Welch Saunders' blackberry scones make the sorry impostors at a certain ubiquitous coffee-house chain taste like clay pigeons, and where a juiced-up group of local retailers and other die-hards plot strategies for the town, not just for it to survive but to prosper...
...built levees along the river's banks to hold in the water and turned its rapids and ever changing sandbars into a more civilized staircase of 29 locks and dams stretching nearly 700 miles from St. Paul, Minn., to St. Louis, Mo. Now the upper Mississippi has become a chain of placid pools, each deep enough to allow barges calm passage before a lock lowers them toward New Orleans...
...Fidel Castro is much more concerned with what the world-famous six-year-old acquired in the U.S.--symbolized by the black suede Pokemon chain Elian wore when he arrived from Washington, a capitalist contrast to the Young Communist Pioneer scarves that dozens of his shouting, flag-waving Cuban classmates donned to greet him. In a calculated show of political restraint, Castro didn't come to the airport to hail the pint-size icon. Instead, he broadcast a Cuban animated cartoon character to welcome Elian on national television--Elpidio Valdes, the patriotic, machete-swinging colonel who tells children...
...Route 50 trip, we saw how the digital economy was creating a new generation of pioneers, who were setting up enterprises wherever they wanted. But we also noticed, in places where old family-run shops and cafes on Main Street had given way to big-box stores and chain restaurants in megamalls, a yearning for a lost sense of community...
...Olive Garden, the delicious and reasonably priced Orlando, Fla.-based restaurant chain, has teamed up with an authentic Italian winery in a wonderful little osteria in Castellina in Chianti, right near Siena. It's called Olive Garden Riserva di Fizzano, and it provides all the bread you can eat. Make reservations...