When Nudger and Claudia were finished eating they drove to the Ted Drewes frozen custard stand on Chippewa and stood in line for a couple of chocolate chip concretes.

The eviscerators stand between three and five feet apart; quality control people sit further apart, between about every fourth or fifth eviscerator.

The vested owners of all those sun-drenched tract houses may stick around for a while and fight over the region, perhaps thinking that they are reenacting the great historical dramas of the nineteenth century—such is the long-term effect of canned entertainment on the collective imagi­nation.

War-ridden countries are generally unable to provide basic services for their citizens.