| Grant's Shields making all the right moves
They've worked with me on my shot selection and on my free throws and on defense and on just being a leader on the team and getting everyone involved. I guess I've continued to get better." Shields was already pretty good when he first started playing varsity basketball. As a sophomore. He made the team that year and wound up earning a starting spot six or seven games into the season when point guard Zach Williams broke his wrist. "It was a little hard for Mike at first because it was the first time he really had to bring the ball up and be a true point guard," Ralston said. "But he really improved as the year went on and he did a lot of really good things for us that season." Ralston says that since then Shields has developed into a top-notch ball-handler, which has made him only better at what he's always done best: drive to the basket.
Fallon's noon siren shows still sounding off
I don't know now why we need it," Patel said. "Before it was necessary, but not now. If you can stop it, I will appreciate it."
While the siren is no doubt rattling for those who live nearby, it is not unique to Fallon.
A quick Internet search reveals a plethora of YouTube posts featuring sirens from across the country and the world. From Ohio, to Kansas, Indiana and Montana, many small towns stoke the tradition to sound the siren at noon each day.
For many Midwestern towns, though, the siren serves a necessary purpose - it announces an approaching tornado. Fortunately, Fallon isn't prone to such natural disasters.
"It's a tradition," said Mayor Ken Tedford Jr. "If we took it away we'd get more complaints. I like traditions, it's important to the community."
The mayor agreed with the city engineer that the fire siren is useful in alerting drivers to volunteers responding to a fire emergency.
America sours on free trade
So the prospect of a recession has made the anxious middle class even more so. Coming in a presidential election season, the approaching storm clouds have turned the economy into the No. 1 issue on the campaign trail. Fear is a potent force in American politics, and Democratic Party leaders have astutely tapped into rising voter unease about globalization. Fortune's poll, a survey of 1,000 adult Americans taken Jan. 14-16, shows that voters have identified winners and losers in the free-trade agenda. Nearly half of those polled believe that growth in international trade has made things better for consumers (though nearly as many think it has made things worse), but 55% believe American business has been harmed, and 78% think it has made things worse for American workers. (See the complete poll results) .
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