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...about 7,000, with an average household income of $52,537. Lori's is a street of $79,000 starter homes that people stay in for 30 years, brick bungalows with metal awnings and a ribbon of lawn that skips from house to house. For years the mainline Forest Park patriarchs of St. Louis looked down on the German immigrants who settled this south side because they were forever washing those neat cement porches and tight little windows. They called them the Scrubby Dutch. Policeman Harvey Laux lives across the street from Lori. He figures there has been one burglary...
...there such a thing as writer's unblock? King, who works virtually nonstop, regularly churning out two and sometimes three books a year, provides a clue about how he is able to manage such a forest-clearing output. In his introduction to the first volume of The Green Mile, he writes, "Most of the second chapter was written during a rain delay at Fenway Park!" Throw in a couple of pitching changes for revisions, and Anne Rice had better start watching her back on the hardcover best-seller list...
...bear rearing on its hind legs. I've read that on the trails you should alert the bears you are coming by talking, singing or wearing a bell on your backpack. I was not singing or ringing when my daughter and I recently hiked in the Los Padres National Forest. Sure enough, we surprised a black bear eating berries. We were too startled to "gaze dreamily on the scenery" as Ehrenreich advised. Nor did I speak firmly or play dead. Instead I cried, "Oh look! A bear!" This technique proved quite effective. The animal was gone so fast...
...teens all over the world. The trips leave every three years, so that everyone will have a chance to travel at some point during high school. There is a German club and a Spanish club, and an environmental-science club scheduled to fly to Honduras to study the rain forest. The trips are not paid for by the school. Somehow the town parents have consistently bought enough bake-sale cookies, patronized enough car washes or simply laid out enough cash to buy Montoursville's kids a small slice of the wider world...
Another new entry is the publicly traded Rain Forest Cafe, a chain featuring sensational tropical settings, live birds and faux snakes, a dollop of ecological education, long waits and well-rated food. Hot as the tropics, its stock rose a steaming 700% since an April 1995 IPO and on July 1 split three...