Word: creeks
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...McDonald’s hamburger in 28 months and 12 days, but I still remember how tasty that slim patty of processed meat was. Certainly tastier than, for example, the completely bland 12-ounce steak I had at the Eat’n Park just past Falls Creek, Pa., on Interstate 80 just about a month ago. Is the Eat’n Park supposed to be a place where you can eat and park, or is it perhaps an eating park? This same question distracted me enough throughout my meal on that dreary morning that when my attention...
About a mile off the twisting, two-lane road to the south of Central City, Pa., set back in the woods along a private road, past the truck scales and the raw-coal stockpile, invisible from the highway, is the Shade Creek processing plant of PBS Coals Inc. There freshly mined coal is washed, the sulfur, rock, ash and other impurities removed and the cleaned coal carried by an overhead conveyor belt across the dusty road. It goes into a building on the other side that is operated by a second company, Central City Synfuels. Another belt comes...
...Once, prime time had populist fun with the differences between rich and poor Americans (The Beverly Hillbillies, Good Times, Dallas). But by the late 1990s, both struggling workers and scheming, zillionaire J.R. types had become fewer, replaced by the characters in middle-class soaps (Dawson's Creek) and the cappuccino-quaffing likes of Frasier, Friends and Will & Grace; we were one nation under Starbucks...
CONS He played Pacey on Dawson's Creek...
...good life, Michigan couple Mary and Tom Clark appear to be doing everything right. Both work--she as a middle-school teacher, he as an insurance claims adjuster--to support their two girls, ages 6 and 9. When the Clarks bought their four-bedroom house in Battle Creek six years ago, they put 20% down to get the best interest rate. They have no credit-card debt, economize every way they can--yet can't escape the feeling that they are just a pink slip away from financial disaster. "If Tom lost his job, we'd be hurting fast," says...