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...colder than average winter, are expected to boost prices even higher. Last week 111 members of Congress--Democrats and Republicans, mostly from the Northeast and the Midwest--sent a letter to Clinton asking him to deploy the SPR. To dramatize the problem Friday, Gore held an event in Pittsburgh that featured a number of people battered by rising oil prices, including an elderly woman named Annie Young who said she didn't know how she was going to pay for heating oil since she already couldn't pay for her prescription drugs. "These prices are skyrocketing," said Gore...
...each side worked on its game plan, Gore dropped in last Friday at a Pittsburgh Steelers practice, where the team was preparing for its confrontation with the Tennessee Titans. Asked later whether he had seen any moves that might come in handy against Bush, the Vice President paused a minute and chose his words: "Maybe a down-and-out pattern." That's one play both sides had better expect...
Feel free to insert your own joke here, but be aware that "hold the pickles" has already been used in several variations. Nick Fratangelo has heard them all at his club on Route 22, about 45 minutes east of Pittsburgh in the rolling dairy land of Salem Township...
...about all the things we do in this country without ever getting out of our cars, we're a pretty sedentary lot. You can bank at the drive-up and grab dinner at the drive-through. For the ambitiously lazy, there's the drive-by shooting. But a suburban Pittsburgh man has taken sloth the extra mile. Who else but an American would open the world's first drive-through strip joint...
Chabon, whose previous novels include Werewolves in Their Youth and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, knows and loves his pulps. He also seems to understand intuitively that in the U.S., popular culture is the culture, and there is no point in pretending it is not. But the real heroes of his latest effort are the ink-stained drudges who filled the brightly colored panels with muscle-bound avengers and infectious onomatopoeia: Biff! Bam! Boom! and the occasional Kerplunk...