Article: No. 003: once upon a time (last month), in a distant land (Pittsburgh), there was a doctor, a pig, and a magical pixie dust that could regrow fingers happily, this was no fairy tale.(MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR)

The Cincinnati branch of HobbyTown USA is located in an old strip mall on the outskirts of the city, in between a Payless shoe store and an H&R Block. One recent Sunday morning, the assistant manager, Lee Spievack, stood behind the cash register licking his fingers, having just devoured a Krispy Kreme chocolate doughnut. Spievack is sixty-nine, and the accumulation of years has made him less imposing than he was thirty-five years ago, when he won a Silver Star during the Vietnam war. He was wearing his HobbyTown USA uniform: a crisp yellow button-down shirt with his name stitched in red letters that was tucked tightly into khaki pants pulled well higher than his waist. ...

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