Good ribs are all over the place, but the best brisket is in Texas, and to me that means The Salt Lick, a rock-your-world temple of fire, smoke and meat outside Austin.

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Now he saw the town as you saw a place after fire, all softness gone: the out-crops of rock, the dark gullies, the fireproof rubbish of brown beer bottles and car skeletons.

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One special visitor's planned arrival to Fire Island is creating a pressing deadline for the cleanup of tons of rotting wood, sheet rock, old refrigerators and other Superstorm Sandy debris from the popular vacation destination east of New York City.

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Labour have criticised the government's sale of Northern Rock as a poor deal for taxpayers, saying it was sold off at a "fire sale" price.

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