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Peaks and
Valleys Fact,
Fiction, and Fantasy by Stephanie Dray |
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Articles Once
plagued by falling sales, family board games like Monopoly and Clue are top
sellers once again. According to
Adrienne Lester, Manager of Kay-Bee Toy & Hobby Shop in Owings Mills Town
Centre mall, old favorites are making a comeback, in part, due to the rising
price tags of video games. It's
winter. Your first instinct might be
to curl up for the season with some hot chocolate and a box of cookies. But snowfall doesn't have to force you into
retreat from your fitness goals.
Winter is no reason to hibernate.
Be brave; bundle up; go outside!
Have you
ever wanted to ride a dragon or daydreamed of haggling for droids on
Tatooine? Or maybe you've imagined
engaging in political intrigue in a big ancient city like In the beginning, there was the telephone. It was a simple box on the wall that rang.
And it was good. Then came the
telemarketer, and it was bad. If an alien culture landed on earth they would think that we were slaves kept on a tether by little ringing, beeping and vibrating boxes. After all, don’t grown adults jump up and run when a beeper starts vibrating in their pocket? Don’t teenagers seem to have telephones growing from their ears? Telephones ring in theaters and in stores, and people actually answer them, no matter how busy they might be at the time. People have loud conversations into mobile phones in their cars or just walking down the street. Tanks,
Guns, and Automobiles: Summer
Fireworks in a New Light: The
Allies captured Leopold and shipped it to the Aberdeen Proving grounds where
its desert camouflage contrasts starkly with the lush green trees around
it. It's a compelling display, and
museum visitors find it irresistible to muse that the city of Baltimore
proper could easily be bombed from Aberdeen by Leopold’s thirty-mile range. |
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