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Postcard from North Carolina: bullish on downtown Durham

The first time I visited Durham, N.C., was in summer 1993. It was a solo pilgrimage in what was supposed to be the final season of minor league baseball at Durham Athletic Park (DAP), which was immortalized in the 1987

Nothing could be finer than the classic American diner

We hadn’t seen my nephew Sam, who lives in New York City, for four years. So in advance of his first visit to Hershey over Easter weekend, we compiled a list of activities that would showcase some of the authentic

How TMI’s ‘nuclear error’ contributed to one of rock’s greatest albums

March 28, 1979: At 4 a.m., Three Mile Island’s Unit 2 nuclear reactor shuts down as the result of a mechanical or electrical failure in its turbine. At 7:24 a.m., a general emergency is declared. April 1: President Jimmy Carter

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