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For a seat-of-the-pants introduction to America's highway misery, try rattling down the joint-jangling Southwest Freeway in the shadow of the Washington Monument. On this long-neglected strip of pavement, a washboard ripple effect experts call rutting jiggles the front wheels into a dervish dance. Farther...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why America Has So Many Potholes | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

"Where are you going?" people asked. Memphis, we said. Graceland. But also Alabama and Mississippi. Arkansas and West Virginia. "America" was our answer, half facetious but half serious. We wanted to see real life, real people, not just the tourist traps and standard attractions. We wanted to eat down-home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Can you be a stranger in your own country? | 4/23/1992 | See Source »

Such inflammatory rhetoric sends shudders through the U.S. beef industry, which is already reeling from a nearly one-third drop in per capita consumption since 1976 -- the result of popular concern about fat in the diet. Now Rifkin hungers for a more decisive blow. This week he is leading a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beef Against . . . Beef | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

Celia lives up to his modest expectations when she torments him, leaving the coat rack or the vacuum cleaner in front of the door on her way out. But her antics have a motive--her love for Martin; she uses the booby traps to retaliate against his apathy toward her...

Author: By Aparajita Ramakrishnan, | Title: No Sight, But Plenty of Sensation | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

"Defenses need a rhythm, too. You have to know when to step up, when to gamble, when to trap. A lot of the traps we put on were not called, we just saw them at the right moment, and we stepped up and harassed them," Mitchell said.

Author: By John B. Trainer, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Triumphant at Last: M. Cagers Down Dartmouth for First Victory, 41-35 | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

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