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...Well, there's the Frontier Fort. Just go up the street and turn right at the light...
...Frontier Fort is why Applebee's exists. Its food is more consonant with the local culture - the main offerings are beef and bison, which are both raised within a very short drive of Jamestown - but my meal was prepared with indifference. My bison sirloin was so tough and flavorless that I couldn't finish it; the fries tasted of old grease. And apart from the two deer heads on the wall, virtually every other decoration at Frontier Fort was supplied by national beer companies; the clockface read "Miller Lite, A True Pilsner Beer." The undersalted cole slaw was delivered...
...Frontier Fort served similar bread, but I can't call it Texas toast. It was just a regular slice, the kind you get in a Wonder pack. There was nothing effortful about it. It ticked me off. But now I understood Applebee's, which doesn't strive to inspire - it strives never to disappoint...
...border will be considered an enemy. They have sent bulldozers across the border to clear away trees, boulders, bunkers and other structures that impede their view into this swath of territory. Maintaining such a buffer zone will theoretically prevent Hizballah from returning to its positions along the frontier, shooting small arms across it, kidnapping more soldiers and easily gathering intelligence on Israeli army movements. But it won't stop the militia from firing rockets from deeper inside Lebanon. Israeli forces have concentrated on tracking and eliminating Hizballah's rocket launchers, but with limited results. Many are hidden in bunkers that...
...Hammer, Collins argues, was "perhaps the first widely popular antihero: a good guy who used the methods of the bad guy in pursuit of frontier justice, a vigilante who spared the courts the trouble of a trial by executing the villain himself." The jolt this character gave to literature, by being both so brutal and so popular, was immediate and lasting. "We were a very puritan nation right up through the 1950s," says novelist Loren Estleman. "I think it was people like Mickey Spillane, getting out there and effectively butting his head against the wall that made those walls collapse...