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Grounds zero

It used to be that coffee was just coffee. It came in a round tin with a plastic lid at the grocery store—regular, decaf or instant. It was a simple drink, sweetened up, mixed with creams or taken black. Sometimes it even gave you bad breath. But as more and more people are learning about […]

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No spring chicken

A camperdown elm shoots through the concrete parking lot and stretches towards a neon sign. Its drooping branches weave around the windows of the restaurant. It occupies at least three potential parking spaces. Trucks have hit it over the years. It lost one side to a backhoe. Dutch Elm disease threatened to kill it. But […]

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