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Last week John got some bad news.
His company is downsizing and moving its head office to another city.
It's moving because it can no longer afford to do business where they are now.
Expenses are too high, especially salaries, so it's more difficult to compete with other companies.
Every day the remaining staff of maintenance personnel perform their routine tasks and make repairs when needed.
Sometimes they peer through the darkness toward their friends from New Zealand, at Scott Base, about two miles away.
Though most of the time they're just voices on the radio, it's nice to have neighbors not too far away.
Together, they share a power grid and one coast of a dark forbidding continent.
Harry was in a hurry, so he asked the taxi driver to get him into the city as soon as possible.
The taxi driver agreed and sped up, but just as they left the airport, the car went out of control.
It spun around and skidded into the path of an oncoming truck.
Fortunately, the truck wasn't going too fast, so nobody was killed.
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