New Jersey: A State of Surprise

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Dawn catches commuters streaming to Manhattan. Often overshadowed by New York, New Jersey fashions its own personality with industrial brawn and pastoral charm.
An eyeful of open space awaits those who venture away from the clamorous expressways to explore New Jersey's less traveled roads. Two-thirds of the nation's most densely populated state is forest and farmland. In the southern coastal plain, a harrow prepares the soil for spring planting between strips of winter grain.
Elegance gets a face-lift as architecture students earn credit by refurbishing the Chalfonte Hotel in Cape May, one of the nation's oldest summer resorts. The 105-year-old hotel offers free room and board for such work during the off-season. The city of Cape May, with 600 Victorian structures, is a national historic landmark.
The coffee's always hot at Rosie's 24-hour diner on Route 46 in Little Ferry. Built to resemble a railroad dining car, it has welcomed truckers and travelers here since 1945. Despite the growth of fast-food chains, New Jersey's three manufacturers of diners keep busy, building and trucking them in sections cross-country.
Lured by dreams of fortune, Atlantic City gamblers turn Caesars Boardwalk Regency Hotel Casino into a blur of activity.
Idle hands symbolize the plight of Newark, suffering from a 13 percent unemployment rate. But boosters are heartened by industrial development along the New Jersey Turnpike and a boom in downtown office construction.
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Marshland and garbage turn to pay dirt in the Hackensack Meadowlands, long used as a dump. Part of the planned 2,000-acre DeKorte State Park will become a ski slope.
Fans cross over from Manhattan to see the New York Giants compete in the stadium, also the home of the Cosmos soccer team. The New Jersey Nets play basketball in a nearby arena.
Rhythmic images dance on a screen linked to Stanley Jordan's guitar via a synthesizer the Princeton University music major built for concerts.
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The coffee's always hot at Rosie's 24-hour diner on Route 46 in Little Ferry. Built to resemble a railroad dining car, it has welcomed truckers and travelers here since 1945. Despite the growth of fast-food chains, New Jersey's three manufacturers of diners keep busy, building and trucking them in sections cross-country.
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