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Walking out to Inman Square will burn off the calories from the ice cream, and it's worth the trek to Christina's to enjoy the old-fashioned ice cream parlor ambience and the very Cambridge bulletin board full of "community notices." Besides, even the most dedicated Herrell's fan needs a break once in a while...
Distractions are making inroads here, too. A Dunkin' Donuts display makes you wonder if you are in a bakery or an ice cream parlor...
...m.p.h. prairie winds had sent the flames gulping through the compound. The fire raced through the big parlor, feeding on the wooden benches and the stacks of Bibles kept by the door. The chapel crackled as flames consumed hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of equipment from the messiah's rock-'n'-roll band and the wooden pew-like bleachers for his audience. Table after table in the cafeteria burned, and rows of children's wooden bunk beds upstairs, as the flames spread faster, through the attic that ( ran the length of the building like a wind tunnel. It burned...
Some Japanese have lost everything: personal and business bankruptcies have soared. Shinichi Hoshino is afraid to reveal his real name. He has not declared bankruptcy, but that is a technicality. After running a bar and a mah-jongg parlor, he ventured into real estate in the early 1980s. By 1989 he employed 40 people, and that year he sold 100 apartments to customers who bought them as investments and tax shelters, netting $1.7 million in profits. In retrospect, he says, he should have realized that the boom was topping out, but "every month the prices continued...
Susie mentioned a gathering last weekend where they played a parlor game, "Two Minutes in the Closet." Two minutes with a boy, I gathered from her description. "Two minutes for what?" I asked her. "For talking? Did you have to talk for two minutes?" Susie just raised her eyebrows...