Word: traps
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...Routes 7, 50 and 123. And you certainly can't avoid the traffic. Fifteen years ago, Fairfax, Loudoun and Arlington counties in northern Virginia were nothing but sleepy residential communities and remote farmland, places to drive through on the way to Dulles Airport or concerts at Wolf Trap or camp sites near Front Royal. Now this 1,400-sq.-mi. area of northern Virginia is threatened with becoming a concrete-and-asphalt expanse of office buildings and parking lots, home to hundreds of new dotcoms, telephone companies, wireless firms, Internet-service providers and venture capitalists--home to everything that makes...
...times it's disconcerting--to feel unfamiliar in your own skin, to wake up, as I have, ensnared in a cultural Venus fly trap slowly eating away at your former self. And more unsettling than a vindaloo--fiery hot with cinnamon, cardamom, cumin and peppercorns--is the suspicion that, innocent and unaware, I was anesthetized by an urban predator, and now must lay paralyzed as the city alters my very being...
...Pavin has shown as much shotmaking skill. Vijay Singh works as hard on his game. Ernie Els has as much poise under pressure. But no one combines these traits like Tiger. His long, high tee shots allow him to sail over the trees, bunkers, ponds and other obstacles that trap or deter lesser golfers. He routinely hits unreachable par-five holes in just two strokes. He can hit a soft, high nine-iron shot into par-fours where others face more difficult shots with middle and long irons...
...much for a warm-weather boost. More critically, the sharp rise in stocks looks suspiciously like a bear-trap rally, the kind that draws money from the sidelines as investors worry lest they miss out on a new bull market. Alas, these bounces, called suckers' rallies, prove short-lived and end in despair. Money drawn in near the top vanishes amid new lows on the major averages...
...nursing home. "But I'm only 58," my mother said. "We're healthy." Not to be critical, but my parents are the sort of optimists who bought a retirement home with a second floor. And a spiral staircase. And low-wattage lighting on the landing."It's a death trap," I said. "We like our house," my mother said. That's just like them. And, it turns out, just like the rest of America...