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...home from work. She called the police, who headed out to Finn's Point National Cemetery, on a spit of New Jersey 30 miles south of Philadelphia. They arrived to find a grim tableau. The caretaker, William Reese, was there--with a bullet through his head. His red Chevrolet truck was missing. In its place, eerily, was a dark-green Lexus...
...exuberant optimism and Pase's quiet resignation--these are the cadences that our Highway 50 team is listening for. "We're trying to discover what unites and divides the nation, besides the road," says Washington bureau chief Michael Duffy. That search took our journalists last week to high schools, truck shops, bowling alleys and bars. They explored a 2,000-year-old Indian burial mound, a doll factory, an FBI lab and a two-alarm fire. The first dispatch from the Greyhound appears in this week's issue. Look for our full report next month...
Upscale storage facilities like Summerfields usually have individual locks and seven-days access with computer passwords. Summerfields even has a loading dock complete with truck rentals and on-site packaging expertise...
POTSDAM, Germany: German police have discovered what is believed to be a legendary Russian mosaic in the basement of a German truck driver?s apartment. The art was part of an ornate 1,300-square-foot hall with walls made of amber in Peter the Great's 18th Century palace. It vanished during World War II, sometime after Nazi troops took it from St. Petersburg to Konigsburg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). While the German government claimed the wall panels were destroyed during the1945 Soviet invasion of Konigsburg, Russian officials charged that Bonn had hidden the treasure. While the fate...
Tamagotchi, the latest toy craze in Japan, arrived last week in a Brink's truck at Manhattan's FAO Schwarz. The egg-shaped pet chick has a virtual life right on a key chain, where it's hatched, lives and dies--virtually. When it beeps, the owner is supposed to pet it by pressing its buttons. The chick even leaves virtual droppings to be cleaned up. It sells on Japan's black market for $500, but the suggested U.S. retail price is $15. The profits are real...