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...accessories, trailer hitches, fog lights, wheels "and so much more." I make a note to include these items in my accounts, then turn off toward the bay, which is winter blue already. The powerboats have disappeared. The cormorants swarm in a black mass near the mouth of a creek, their snake heads craning for invisible fish. I watch for a while, slip in a tape of k.d. lang and add these things to my list as well...
Twelve states rank malls among their top three tourist attractions, including Minnesota (Mall of America), Virginia (Potomac Mills) and Colorado (Denver's Cherry Creek Mall). Yet by most estimates, fewer than 30 U.S. cities are big enough to support a mega-shopping center, and even those probably don't have room for more than one. Perhaps that's why Mills has announced an alliance with New York City-based Tishman Speyer Properties to build malls in Germany, Britain, Japan and Brazil. Today America; tomorrow the world...
...beautiful fall afternoon not long ago, all 120 eighth-grade students and four of their teachers at the Olson Middle School in Minneapolis, Minn., walked across a grassy playing field down to nearby Shingle Creek. For the past five weeks, they had been raising monarch butterflies--from caterpillar through chrysalis--and now 30 of them were ready for release...
...distressed menhaden thrashed around the surface as sea gulls swooped down and ate them. The state set up an on-site monitoring station, with orders to close any waterway where more than 20% of fish had lesions. By last week parts of the Pocomoke, the Chicamacomico and King's Creek were declared off limits...
...read books, put idle thoughts to paper and played in a bridge club every Friday. She baked bread, tended garden and strolled into the nearby village of Champagne-Mouton on market day, tall and delicate, a sight so fair the mayor's tired old heart would stir. The Gold Creek met the Silver Creek near the Mallons' acreage, and all around, the gentlest breeze would set fields of sunflowers ablaze with waves of golden light...