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Crossing America: Crisis a world away from Kansas.(The Seattle Times)
LEBANON, Kan. _ You could take a nap in the middle of Main Street, right on the gravelly pavement, with your belly button directly over the center line, and you would not have to worry about the morning commute messing up your hair.
The six or seven people who drive to work downtown hardly make a stir. And throughout the day, townspeople, mostly gray- and white-haired, drift through as unobtrusively as tumbleweed blowing across the prairie.
This town in north Kansas is the geographic center of the continental United States. A few more than 320 people live here, and they are as far removed from the American mainstream as any rural outpost in the land. They don't seem to mind.
For residents, the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., while they caused some commotion and worry, only seemed to affirm the rightness in their choice to remain in a place that so many others have left.
Life continues unruffled and unchanged.
"It's been like watching ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Crossing America: Crisis a world away from Kansas.(The Seattle Times)