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...allowing us to travel with greater speed, freedom and whim than our ancestors could ever have imagined, the Interstates changed how we experience movement through space and time. Not so long ago, when family vacations entailed days poking along in slow-moving cars on even slower roads, the journey ranked almost as high as the destination. To relieve the tedium, Dad made regular stops at places that now seem hopelessly quaint - alligator wrestling joints, tourist cabins, and dinosaur-themed miniature golf-courses...
...course, no doubt that politics would trump substance. The Republicans dutifully repeated White House talking points, punctuated occasionally by perverse outbursts like Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe's assertion that "this isn't a civil war...the insurgents aren't Iraqis." The melodrama on the Democratic side was the continuing slow-motion self-immolation of Senator John Kerry, who posited, on the radio, "lie and die" as the Bush Administration's alternative to "cut and run." Sadly, there was no sign on either side of Clinton's hoped-for strategy to win in Iraq...
...lost in the mail," he says. However, persistence paid off. In 1988, the London-based writers' association International pen accepted Kurkov as a member on the strength of his unpublished manuscripts. Then, in 1999, Death and the Penguin was picked up by a Swiss publisher, and began its slow climb onto best-seller lists in Switzerland and Britain. At first, some Ukrainians refused to consider Kurkov a Ukrainian writer because he wrote in Russian. At the same time, his criticism of Putin infuriated Russian nationalists. It was only last year that a St. Petersburg-based firm cautiously resumed publishing Kurkov...
...presented Tehran with a package of incentives aimed at persuading Iran to stop enriching uranium, Khamenei authorized the President to call the proposal a "positive step." Ahmadinejad said last week that Iran plans to respond to the West's offer by mid-August, but that's too slow for the Bush Administration, which wants an answer by the end of June. Analysts close to the regime say Khamenei may agree to suspend uranium enrichment for a fixed period but will quibble on specifics in hopes of prolonging talks and forestalling action by the U.N. Security Council. "Iran...
...That's because as the price of gas has soared, so has the amount of money that stations pay credit-card companies, which take about 2-3% of each sale charged. Since drivers are quick to defect to another station to save just a penny or two, owners are slow to raise prices to cover their increased costs--and at times even lose money when a customer charges a fill-up. "We get hurt when the price goes up--the opposite of what the customer thinks," says Stewart Spinks, who runs 38 Spinx stores in the Carolinas and Georgia. With...