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...dial my cell phone with frozen fingers. The woman who answers tells me I am lucky: I'll be No. 58 on her waiting list. The Toy Station in the wealthy suburb of Lake Forest is next. It's now snowing like crazy, and it takes me almost an hour to get there. But my holiday adrenaline has kicked in. I double-park and push past a throng of parents. The salespeople laugh out loud when I voice my request...
...Terrorist Café and proceed down the next dark alley, some dogs begin to howl. The soldiers stiffen and point their gun-mounted flashlights in all directions. "The dogs are the Iraqi early-warning system," alerting insurgents to the approach of strangers, Stubbs says. "They're very effective." Half an hour later, the patrol ends without event. The platoons get back on their humvees and return to their forward operating base, known as Gunslinger. Stubbs is relieved to have completed the mission but can't shake his suspicion--one that is heightened when, a few blocks from the mosque, Adhamiya suddenly...
Perry, a farm boy from West Texas who studied animal science at Texas A&M University, sees the Trans-Texas Corridor as a way to make his mark by tackling the state's growing congestion. Urban rush-hour drivers were stuck in traffic for an average of 46 hr. in 2002, nearly triple the time in 1982, according to a study conducted by the Texas Transportation Institute. Increasingly, tolls are seen as a way to reduce traffic. "We simply can't afford to build our way out of traffic congestion, so we have to better manage it," says Michael Replogle...
...competition for the holiday-beverage market--cold soda. This winter, revelers have a couple of new holiday-themed brews from which to choose. Jones Soda's fivepack of flavored sodas--Turkey & Gravy, Cranberry, Mashed Potato & Butter, Green Bean Casserole and Fruitcake--sold out of their online store within an hour, despite tasting rather revoltingly like turkey, mashed potato and green-bean casserole. For those looking for something a little more quaffable, Oop!Juice (which despite the name is all soda, no juice) offers up blueberry-flavored Gefilte Fizz, sour apple Santa Sauce (which tastes like a melted Jolly Rancher candy...
...going nuts," Wisdom recalls. "We never anticipated how emotional it would be. It ended up being the most rewarding holiday experience we've ever had." This year they're looking forward to taking canned goods to the North Texas Food Bank. "Instead of seeing Christmas as just another social hour, we did something meaningful together," Wisdom explains. "It's really refreshing to take the focus off our lives, our bank accounts and our shopping lists to step into another world...