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...getting to them can be as time consuming and nerve jangling as making the haul between suburb and city. During a stifling spring heat wave two weeks ago, one couple in Long Island's fast-growing Suffolk County took 1 hr. 15 min. to sweat through 15 miles of bumper-to-bumper traffic between their home and the ocean beachfront of Robert Moses State Park. Du Page County's Morton Arboretum, a popular spot for local outings, is becoming a walled fortress. Managers are erecting a series of 40-ft.-high earth berms to protect the trees and shrubs from...
...complete out-of-town business. Even a Saturday trip to the dry cleaner's has been known to take two hours or more. In spring, Nature Writer Lola Oberman carries binoculars around her Maryland house all day, just in case a good bird appears at a window. And bumper stickers saying I BRAKE FOR BIRDS had better be taken seriously: on the highway, birders have been known to lose control when a good bird flies over. Pete Bacinski, one of New Jersey's best-known birders, totaled his Chevy Nova when he took his eyes off the road to look...
There will be few microminis, those brazen bumper stickers that show nothing but the leg and require a companion-bodyguard to be worn safely. "The new minis are not thigh-high, the kind where if you drop a quarter on the ground, you have to leave it there," says Lynn Schnurnberger, author of the upcoming Let There Be Clothes: 40,000 Years of Fashion Unveiled. "This batch didn't come from a revolutionary, free-sex period. They are cool, pretty, definitely not overly suggestive...
...bureaucratic defensiveness. "Semper fi," grouses an officer at Marine headquarters, "means don't say anything critical because it's going to reflect on Kelley." Self-criticism is precisely what the Corps needs, say some experts. What they have instead, says one of Kelley's subordinates, is a "lot of bumper-sticker bravado...
...saloon in Juneau, the sawdust on the floor gets changed biweekly come fog, downpour or the occasional shard of sunlight. Behind the bar, there's a bumper sticker that was temporarily stapled up last spring for laughs. It reads, GOD, PLEASE GIVE US ANOTHER BOOM. WE PROMISE NOT TO P THIS ONE AWAY...