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760_feet.gif (2843 bytes) This is from an eight-page, full-color advertising supplement to The Kansas City Star of November 12, 2000.  It announces the opening of a community facility near here.
 
  • It's not all that interesting that the track changed from a running track to a walking track in the blink of a headline.
      
  • It's not all that interesting that the lead paragraph of the lead, front-page story says,

    The North Kansas City Health and Community Activity Center opened November 17, 2000 to the general public.

    despite the fact that the circular was published, as I say, five days earlier.
      
  • It's not all that interesting that the facility is referred to as the "North Kansas City Health & Activity Center" in huge letters at the top of the front page, yet in the paragraph quoted immediately above the word "Community" has been added.
      
  • It's not all that interesting that there should be a comma after "2000."
      
  • It's not all that interesting that the word "general" in the phrase "general public" is redundant.

No, what's interesting is the height of the track, said to be "760 feet above the ball courts."

 

Update of February 20, 2001: Here's another, more interesting piece about this community center.

 

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