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...highways and the towns that line them have long since been eclipsed by the Interstate and strips of EconoLodges and Burger Kings. For modern cruise-control motorists, the fractured skeleton of the U.S. highway system has been relegated to the realm of the cultural archaeologist, a reminder of how Americans used to travel before the age of the jug handle and the clover leaf...
Each Republican candidate has stopped in this college town, and many students interviewed while eating lunch earlier this month at the local Burger King say they are ready to cast their ballots...
...students in order to distort the free market, force students to trek to Loker Commons in the snow and sleet [so as not to lose the $75 allotment which their tuition purchased], and alter their normal consumption choices. Alas, say goodbye to Tommy's. Pinocchio's and Bartley's Burger Cottage. Pretty soon we will all have to eat in an ugly tan basement with no windows. And we wanted more choices...
...might just be that someone else steals your message." In the meantime, "he's having the time of his life," says writer Peggy Noonan, a friend who also helped polish Forbes' announcement speech. But his 18-hour days on the campaign trail are anything but a holiday. At a Burger King in Iowa City recently (Forbes is keen on the French fries), he was approached by a woman holding a baby in one arm and a Whopper in the other, who asked Forbes whether running for President was his hobby, like ballooning was his father's. Forbes grimaced, then recovered...
...register. As the machine beeps a warning, the sixtyish Jupiter, his watery blue eyes peering over half glasses, struggles to find the right key. "I'm sorry, sir," he says to the man on the other side of the counter, who appears to be waiting somewhat patiently for a burger and fries. "I just started working here...