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...following morning I took a ten-mile run in a placid valley beneath the Green Mountains-a stream, a junkyard dog, an 18th-century one-room schoolhouse, a falconry camp, farms, farms, more farms-then enjoyed a nice breakfast drenched in the world?s best maple syrup and, after shopping, pointed the Honda south. I decided to take the shunpikes down to Brattleboro, hotting village after village. In funky Jamacia, Vermont, I stopped and bought the kids some maple moose pops at the general store. The longhaired kid at the cash register was talking Sox with...
...Lake Placid...
Will the U.S. come to think of China as a friend or a foe? This year, after a period of placid relations while Washington was absorbed with the war on terrorism, there have been indications aplenty that some high U.S. officials--and many ordinary Americans--find China's rise to be a source of anxiety. China, critics say, manipulates its currency to keep its goods cheap, hence destroying American jobs. China steals intellectual property from U.S. firms. China is engaged in a crash program of modernization of its armed forces...
...question of who lies beneath those shining headstones has fueled the controversy over the President's visit, making the placid little cemetery the focus of intense international scrutiny. Most of the more than 2,000 soldiers buried at Kolmeshöhe were killed in the German offensive of December 1944- January 1945 known as the Battle of the Bulge, which produced more than 100,000 German and 81,000 Allied casualties, 77,000 of them Americans...
...final monastic vows? Secret Life revolved around an icon, a black Madonna. This time it's a chair carved in the shape of a mermaid, a symbol of our spiritually amphibious nature, of the inner depths to which we must descend before we can solve the problems of our placid surface existence...