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...David Hare...
...TORTOISE AND THE HARE Though some brain functions tend to diminish with age, the loss may not always place older folks at a disadvantage. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., asked a group of 256 subjects to observe a series of letters, flashed one at a time on a computer screen, and hit a target button whenever an A was followed by an X. Younger adults noticed early in the test that most A's were followed by an X, and became primed to hit the target button whenever they saw an A--which resulted in errors. Older...
...that weren't bad enough, Atlanta claims to have surpassed Chicago as the city with the busiest airport. Chicago's O'Hare airport still has more planes landing and taking off than any other airport--as a frequent visitor to O'Hare, often for longer than I'd intended to stay, I have grown to suspect that a lot more land than take off--but Hartsfield International handles more passengers...
...signs of fighting back. The city council has approved a zoning change for a building in the Loop that would be 67 ft. higher than the towers in Kuala Lumpur. For all I know, the airport authority is secretly figuring out how to jam enough additional passengers into O'Hare to pass up Atlanta, even if some software drummers trying to make connections get crushed like bugs in the process...
...different here, more brooding and stuck up. The only fishing I've ever done is the kind Chouinard dismisses as too easy for words--"with live worms!" At the local store, where we got our one-day licenses, I noted the names of the flies on sale: Ausable Wulff, Hare's Ear, Goofus Bug, Wild Muddler. Wild Muddler appealed to me. Chouinard--who is small and tightly built, with the forearms of the blacksmith he once was--wears green canvas sneakers with holes, a pair of yellowed sweat socks, denim shorts, a beaten cap, a Patagonia vest, of course...