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...Route 431 in northern Alabama, drive into the center square in the little town of Albertville, and you'll know the full passion of American industriousness and hometown pride. There, perched nobly atop a sleek granite platform and gleaming under a stubborn sun that hogs the sky, is a nickel-plated fire hydrant...
...know that anything is possible in America. A man gets off a boat from another land, sets up shop, and his son becomes a millionaire painting the sky...
...years Sol Feldman, 81, of Tamarac, Fla., successfully treated his hypertension with the prescription drug Hyzaar. Then his HMO was sold to another company, and the new plan insisted he use a lower-cost substitute. "I took it for about a week, and my pressure went sky high," Feldman recalls. When the HMO refused to let him go back to Hyzaar, he switched to another plan that covered it. A few months later, however, the new HMO also dropped its Hyzaar coverage. At $79 for a month's supply, Feldman couldn't afford to pay for the prescription...
...Sunshine State knows all about storms. It can tell good clouds from nasty ones, a hurricane sky from one simply overcast. But a novel kind of darkness has come over Florida, and there is no hurricane in sight. What do you do when you're ready for rain and all that comes down is ash, falling like snow but dark and devilish and warm, from a heaven angry with smoke? Run, or get ready to be burned on the Fourth of July...
...pick it up. Once you've got the basics down, it doesn't matter if you bobble a ball or two, or if you can't peg it as far as you once could, or if you have to stare and squint to pick it out of the sky...