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Thirsty West Virginians who plunk quarters into soda machines help finance a state medical school. Cigarette smokers in Washington State cough up $31.7 million a year to clean Puget Sound, while home buyers in Maryland pay transfer fees that help buy new parklands. This practice of earmarking taxes for specific government functions is growing steadily: at least 18 states have adopted targeted taxes since mid-1984, and dozens more such levies -- for schools, police, roads, drug-abuse treatment -- are pending in states from California to Michigan...
From the sea surrounding Puget Sound comes a bounty of oysters such as Hamma Hamma, Penn Cove, Willapa Bay, Kumamoto, Shoalwater Bay and Olympia. Some varieties will be served raw with a raspberry peppercorn mignonette sauce -- a specialty at Fullers. At the sparkling Cafe Sport, Tom Douglas, 29, sautes oysters with chili spices and turns out fluffy Dungeness crab cakes and seductive broiled Japanese Kasu cod with an "ocean salad" of marinated seaweed...
...Francisco, ferries once again churn across the bay, shuttling cars and passengers to Marin and Solano counties. Last year Seattle-area ferries carried 18 million riders, more than the number of people who passed through the Seattle-Tacoma airport. "People who live around Puget Sound love their ferries," says Therese Ogle of Washington State Ferries. "They just scoff at bridges...
With the Hoagie in order, the Jersey Devil is already dreaming of new challenges. Adamson is eager to build a lobster farm in South Carolina, and a college in Seattle wants them to build a floating guesthouse in Puget Sound. But it is Cleveland's proposed new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame that really gets the Jersey Devil's juices flowing. "If I have a dream commission, it is to design the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame," says Badanes, mocking the manner of a politician at a press conference. His colleagues give him a rousing round of applause...
...sights are set on making an appropriate marriage: "Our school could not maintain an elite status socially while offering anything like a serious education." But a few dedicated teachers prep the ambitious girl, and she gets her wish. She is admitted to Vassar. McCarthy writes, "I prefer being a Puget Sound type that had gone east to college, as could happen, though rarely, to Seattle girls...