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...Like Joel, I grew up going to many shore towns, including Seaside Heights, N.J. Though it didn't have the moniker Sleazeside Heights in the '70s, we did have our share of guys showing off their abs. I still get giddy every time I get off the plane at Newark, and I know I am really home when I get that first slice from Palumbo's Pizza on Route 9 in Old Bridge. The Midwest has grown on me these past 30 years, but it can be a bit staid. Jersey? There's never a dull moment! That...
...beginning,” he says. “Everything starts with a Model T before it can become a Porsche. This is sort of like Orville Wright; if you can get the plane off the ground for about six feet, that’s better than nothing, and from then you work on that and make the next version...
...appears to have entered its baroque phase. Consider Mina's preposterous fish. There's no doubt that poaching a fish in seawater produces an effect different from that of salted tap water, or broth, or whatever. But they had to fly that water a thousand miles in a jet plane to get it to Vegas! What can be more unnatural than that? Mina sees the technique as the ultimate in no-frills cookery ("there's literally nothing to it"), but even he admits it's not exactly a feat of conservation. Nor do the mom-and-pop bistros of Portland...
After an almost-missed, last-one-to-board-the-plane flight from Nicaragua to Miami to Honduras, my roommate and I were off to visit the orphanage I taught at last summer in the city of La Ceiba. Seeing the same 22 faces that I lived with this past June reminded me that, in spite of all that has happened since the summer, nothing had changed in my relationship with these kids. The important things—the songs we danced to (“Te Amo” by Makano), the English expressions I taught them...
...before his plane was set to leave, Coach Turner passed away...