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...most obvious way to save gas is simply to drive less. For some, that means changing the destination. Doug and Cheryl Ludwig of Frederick, Md., recently canceled an 18,000-mile trip to Alaska that they had been planning to take in their recreational vehicle, which gets just 10 m.p.g. Instead, they'll be heading to Amish country in nearby Pennsylvania. Other families ditch the car once they've arrived. Brad Smith of Portland, Ore., is taking his two kids, ages 7 and 8, on a three-day bike ride along the southern Oregon coast sponsored by a nonprofit group...
...hands shook. She had been worrying the hem of her dress with what remained of her fingernails.The cause of her distress was no mystery. Each morning, for five days, she had found an excuse to visit the stables. And each morning, upon her arrival, she found her husband Frederick already there, discussing details of the upcoming harvest with The Stable Boy. The fact that she could not ascribe these coincidences to anything more than bad luck did not improve Felicity’s mood.And what was worse, as her own frustration intensified with each passing day, Frederick seemed...
...easy to see why the words of black critics and leaders, taken out of context, can be read as cynical renunciations of country. Abolitionist and runaway slave Frederick Douglass gave a famous oration on the meaning of Independence Day, asking "What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer, a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim." But instead of joining the chorus of black voices swelling with nostalgia to return to their African roots, Douglass stayed put. Poet...
...Frederick breathed in the barn’s hot air and felt the blood quicken in his veins. The Stable Boy took a single step in Frederick’s direction, and by this gesture Frederick knew that the two men understood one another...
...Here,” Frederick said...