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What's new at 7 Northeast amusement parks

The word "roller coaster" has been used a lot lately to connote our confounding economy - with its ups and downs, loop de loops, precarious ascents and stomach-churning drops, you'd think that we've had enough and would prefer to avoid the real ones at all cost. Au contraire - we love them. And the scarier the better.

Like the movie theaters that provided escape from Depression-era woes,...

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