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I took the 14 bus from Bridge and Pratt, stepped off at Grant Avenue. Traffic raced by so fast it whipped your clothes against your body. This used to be one of the most dangerous intersections in the country. Twelve lanes of speeding two-ton vehicles, turning and weaving and not stopping unless the light is all the way red.

There were "friends of the Earth" before the term became a trendy logo designed to be worn to be on the sleeves of enviro-elitists like Al Gore, as the mark of their moral and intellectual superiority.

If you go to Whole Foods, you'll see the source of every item marked. If you go to a farmers market, you'll probably meet the farmer. But save for the Amish and a single, pricey Fair Foods stand, you don't know the source of the Reading's "local" food. That's why they lost my business.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, having received half a million dollars each in campaign contributions from the insurance companies. | Rendell's plan is well-intentioned but wasteful. It would flush millions of taxpayer dollars down the insurance industry toilet,. | You don't have to like the sport nor be necessarily objective when writing about it, but presenting the event from the outset as "the bloodletting" was a bit too much.

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