In St. Anthony, Minn. Chuck Graff runs a gas station. Graff’s father started the family-owned business in 1958. Customers have cautioned Graff that they’ll be scaling back this summer: in jeopardy are their summer travel plans to their Northwoods cabins....

As the Federal Reserve puts upward pressure on interest rates, the dollar is strengthening compared to other world currencies in areas where governments cannot, or will not, relieve savers from the punishing effects of ultra-low interest rates....

Upon being told that starving French peasants had no bread, the above phrase (many historians believe wrongly) has been attributed to Maria Antoinette. A biographer of the unpopular Queen explains why the phrase was so powerful: Bread was the staple food of the French peasantry and working class. About 50% of incomes went into obtaining bread compared to, for example, 5% for fuel. Bread became an obsession, as well as a metaphor for what was thought to be the Queen’s insensitive indifference for the starving peasants and their miserable plights....

At the Wall Street Journal, analysts discuss Russia’s T-72 tank and its propensity to explode when hit by anti-tank munitions. The effect called a “jack-in-the-box,” sends the tanks’ turrets flying off their bodies, sometimes spectacularly....

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