*It's a pleasant day in a quaint, well-kept little town in the mid-western United States. The tallest building in town is, of course, the town hall and its clock tower; the place is sparsely dotted with small stores, suburbs of tidy wooden homes, and wide streets where cattle would have been driven through town in the old days.* *A warm spring wind blows in from the outskirts, bringing with it the scent of corn and wheat; the town is nestled in the heart of huge, open fields where tractors putt...