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...flatbeds-in and out of the world's largest and most complete truck stop. Transport City is a 51-acre, $7 million complex that is still growing in the outskirts of Atlanta, just off Interstate 285. It smells of diesel fuel and looks like a giant J.C. Penney complex, but it is the nearest thing to trucker's heaven yet invented. In it, tired truckers by the hundreds can fill up their 150-gal. tanks, take saunas, wash their clothes, grab a few hours of shuteye, get a quick clutch overhaul and eat their fill. The place...
...away as Virginia and Baton Rouge, La. Their house is a meeting of East and West. Lacquered tables made by Vietnamese artisans and imported from Paris, a Chinese screen bought in Washington, a cowhide rug, a color TV, thick carpeting and soft upholstered sofas. "You show your Penney's card and take what you want home," chuckles Bui, who has quickly adopted the U.S. system of easy credit. But he adds: "Of course we know we will have to pay some...
Cases of NGU, one of 14 sexually-transmitted diseases, outnumber cases of gonorrhea or syphillis statewide, Penney said...
Even today, the disease is diagnosed "by elimination," Elizabeth Penney, the public health nursing advisor specialist in the state's venereal disease program, said yesterday. "If we see a male with a discharge and we culture it and it's not gonorrhea, then we treat for NGU," she explained...
There is also runway walking. Christine's arms must not swing too much, a habit acquired "from all those years playing flute in high school marching bands." The judges, she learns, may frown on her droopy right shoulder. At J.C. Penney's, Christine makes for the dressing room with a slinky green gown. She beckons Charlotte for a second opinion, her ex pression uncertain, one arm modestly shielding the bodice. "My mom used to buy me bras that were too big," she mourns. "She said I'd grow into them. I didn...