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America had an Age of Stuff. It was, I think, after 1880 and before 1955, but these dates are approximate. It was the time when America was rich enough and (generally) peaceful enough to make its own stuff, and to use it, and to cherish it. Now other nations...

Rillettes, He’s Had a Few: Dr. Fisher with some of his cures. End of an Error : Thirty-six years ago H.D. Woodson Senior High School was dubbed the "Tower of Power." These days? "It's a tower. There ain't no power."

'We have table loads of stuff,' says Evanston commander Police investigating reports of drugs being sold from an Evanston home found more than they were looking for when their search of the residence turned up flat-screen televisions, digital cameras, watches, jewelry and thousands of dollars worth of property believed to be stolen from homes across the north suburbs, authorities said ...

Thumbing through books and staining his fingers from newspaper ink, Matthew Fells' eyes were wide open as he delved in the history of black settlers in Oro. Fells, an archival technician at the Simcoe County Archives, started a project several weeks ago to coincide with Black History [...]

A sigh from Saginaw I have rather low self-esteem, which is a handicap for a man in this line of work whom you, dear reader, expect to give you 750 words in the strike zone about the economic stimulus package and all those little government checks going out to 130 million of you in hopes you'll go buy candles to light against the darkness and maybe a rod and reel so you can teach a man to fish, ...