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Gasoline prices are reacting to different forces. As the summer season slows, consumption worries are no longer inflating prices. Refinery utilization, which was hampered by having a few key refineries offline back when gas prices spiked in May, is back to normal, though gas inventories are still a bit low. [This article contains a chart. Please see hardcopy of magazine...
CONTEXT Chief Justice John Roberts was briefly hospitalized after a seizure caused him to fall out of a boat and onto a dock at his summer home in Maine. So far, all tests are normal, and the Justice, who has always had a clean bill of health--aside from a similar incident in 1993--has only minor scrapes...
...attention to detail? In one breath she's discussing how the price per acre for Iowa farmland is not far from its nominal highs reached in 1973; in another she's recounting her early professional life in Geneva and how much fun she had. She seems almost normal...
...Brownell, in the same spot. For their kids, Steve, now 13, and Stephanie, 16, the war in Iraq is more than just flickering images on a television screen. To them, it means a life of constantly shifting family dynamics and stresses - what they must now accept as the "new normal." Referred to as "suddenly military kids," or SMKs, Steve and Stephanie are part of a growing group of American youngsters under the age of 18, whose lives are directly and dramatically impacted when a parent is deployed from the Reserves or the National Guard...
Family life for Durr and his children returned to a relative normal when mom Heather ended her deployment in June. But coming home was still bittersweet. "It was tough for my wife coming home," says Durr. "When she left she had a 14-year-old daughter. When she returned she had a 16-year-old who wants to spend more time with her friends then her family." As the Durr clan works together to find their old rhythm, Eric Durr can breathe a sigh of relief that he is no longer a single dad juggling roles or competing with...