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Kraybill told me the churches next year will rule on the use of Rollerblades, which the Amish of Lancaster are increasingly getting into via another loophole, involving rules on rubber wheels for transportation. This, I think, could be a boon for Lancaster tourism. Sure, handcrafted furniture and farm-fresh produce is nice, but if I'm driving all the way to Pennsylvania, I want to see bearded men in eight-piece suits blading around while chatting on their cellies. Kraybill also said Wal-Mart is poised to come to the Buck, a new local shopping center. Should its proposal...
...vision for a new, more prosperous New Orleans. It includes creating charter schools, loosening restrictions on the city's ability to levy taxes and passing state-income-tax exemptions for manufacturers who set up plants to process some of the 23 million tons of raw materials--such as rubber, steel and coffee beans--that move through New Orleans ports each year. Nagin is also talking up initiatives like a biomedical corridor to lure firms that will leverage the research done at local hospitals and universities...
...junkie, each forward step for promotion brings almost more fascination than trepidation. But I’ve got enough things talking to me (not to mention the actual people I’m supposed to be interacting with). The magazines—and t-shirts, and unnecessary waste of rubber (and voice in my head telling me to burn things?), and whatever doohickey they come up with next—can shut...
BRODERICK: [Finishing Lane's sentence] ... what, one of those rubber green ones...
...speak, and taking the top off this pen doesn’t disappoint. Once the cap is removed the entire balance of the pen changes. This is because the inside of the cap is lined with a soft rubbery material. The pen now balances perfectly in the hand. The rubber coating is also a plus when it comes to sliding the cap back on. Instead of roughly fitting back on, the lining allows the pen to slide gently into and out of the cap, allowing overworked first-year analysts to at least simulate what they no longer have time...