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...trip just to go to the bank, or for a haircut. Roads run in numbingly straight lines, up to 30 km without a bend, their ends shimmering and liquefying in optical illusions as they bleed into the sky; families live on remote cattle properties, hundreds of kilometers from their nearest neighbors. As a result, country friendliness here extends to a code of mutual assistance on the road. Vehicles take such a pounding that breakdowns are common. Stranded travelers are not strangers to these folk, but friends in need?though that tradition is gradually being eroded...
...George W. Bush's story is a dull one: Not much drama in a long-ago D.W.I., in political inheritance and abstinence from alcohol. In a sublimated and nonviolent way (unless you count the lamp), our nearest version to Phoolan Devi may be....Hillary Clinton. Her defining struggle was Bill Clinton (playing the roles of both her nasty husband and her robber-lover). Standing in (unsatisfactorily) for the robber gang, we have her moral smudges and various adventures ambiguously outside the law--billing records and all of that. But Hillary skipped the massacre, the rifle, the gallop across the plains...
...your local supermarket than Webvan-style 100,000-sq.-ft. distribution centers. Safeway and Albertsons are preparing to roll out what is known as the "store-pick" model--you order online, and a professional shopper (O.K., a teenager with a produce chart) picks out the goods at your nearest supermarket, as opposed to a dedicated warehouse. Then you either get same-day delivery for a fee (in urban areas, where it makes financial sense) or go fetch it (in rural areas, where it doesn...
When Harvard dominated the Sloop National Championships three weeks later, tallying a low score of 21 over ten races to beat nearest competitor Charleston by 15 places, the Crimson had established itself firmly as the Fowle Trophy favorite. At the end of the fall season, Harvard led second-place Old Dominion comfortably, 38-26, atop the Fowle standings...
...lead changes in the final 12 races. The juniors Gill and Susan Bonney dominated the 18 races of the B Division and propelled the Crimson into the lead with only four races left to go. Their boat amassed a winning low score of 78 points, 19 places ahead of nearest competitor Dartmouth...