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...mines. The spring flood had run us out of the house twice in two weeks. After I got it cleaned up, I said, 'Let's go.' " The Smiths left Ranger on a Sunday night, and by Wednesday morning Wendy had found work with a water-cooler firm. The job lasted 13 years. "Then the company moved off and left us," he says. "For eleven years I sold cars until sales got bad." Now working for a construction company, he says, "People talk abou going back, but it's mostly memories talking, and those of hard times...
...information and articles mentioning Stanley's success in the business. "Just In!" proclaims a grape-purple poster with lemon-yellow lettering. "New exercises for the NCLEX-RN (registered nurses' exam)! Straight from the latest ETS administration!" The hallway opens up into a lounge with food machines and a water cooler. Classroom and Test-N-Tape rooms branch out on all sides. Stanley watches silently from the news clipping photographs, smiling his kindly middle-aged person's smile...
Until last week, Joseph Cruz, 55, was living on New York City's posh Upper East Side. But while he paid no rent, perhaps he should have been charged some tolls. For Cruz had set up residence, complete with a salvaged bed, storage-crate furniture, a beer cooler and a stove made from an oil drum, smack in the middle of a 35-ft.-long traffic island on Manhattan's East River Drive. His presence immediately stopped a bit of traffic; passing motorists were enchanted by the sight of the eccentric tenant, protected from the elements only...
...comely byproduct of the fitness phenomenon, women have begun literally to reshape themselves, and with themselves, the American notion of female beauty. At home or on the beach or by the office water cooler, a new form is emerging. It may be slimmer than before, but it is surely stronger. It may be massive or petite, but it is always graceful. The face, stripped of its old layers of makeup, looks more natural. The frame, deprived of some adipose tissue, looks more sinuous. It is a body made for motion: for long, purposeful strides across the backcourt, through the mall...
...vast volcanic cloud from Mexico may bring a cooler summer...