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...Whirl, browsed tents of prizewinning fruit preserves and lined up for the cute-baby contest, and if there is such a thing as a time machine on earth, it must be powered by the Ferris wheel at the Wirt County Fair in West Virginia. Back from the war, Jessica Lynch asked her mother and father to take her there...
...went every year until she left for the Army," said Dee Lynch, Jessi's mother. "She would meet her friends--everybody knew everybody. It's just a little county fair. You could sit at one end of the thing and watch your kids play at the other end. It never changed...
...ping and rattle of the rides and games reached all the way to the parking lot as Greg Lynch pushed Jessi's wheelchair toward the glow of the midway, over ruts that jostled her legs (which had been repaired with a metal rod and screws), her pieced-together arm and her back, which had been realigned with metal plates...
...recruiter said she would travel. Now, 20 months after enlistment, Private First Class Jessica Lynch steered her diesel truck across a landscape of grating sand and sucking mud, hauling 400 gallons of water in the rough direction of Baghdad on a mission that just felt bad. Back home, boys with tears in their eyes had offered to marry her, to build her a brand-new house, anything, to get her to stay forever in the high, green lonesome. She told them no, told them she was going to see the world...
...vanquished and that higher rates could dampen growth. Bitter memories remain of 2000, when the BOJ prematurely raised rates from 0% to 0.25%, plunging Japan back into recession; six months later, the BOJ was forced to drop rates back to zero. Still, Jesper Koll, chief Japan economist at Merrill Lynch, says fears of a replay of 2000 are misguided: "The Japanese economy is fundamentally different today, fundamentally stronger...