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Baseball is unique, and it captures the hearts of the American people from the first time horsehide smacks a leather mitt in March, during the punishing heat of late summer and through the hellbent pennant drives of early autumn. From April to October, the second-section boxscore takes precedence over the front-page headline...
...back to early September would help immeasurably. Of course, I've heard that the green flies of Maine are much less ferocious in September than June, and the Science Center isn't about to displace Bermuda as the Western Hemisphere's next great resort, but really, prof, a Cambridge autumn ain't all that...
From the lush San Joaquin Valley in California to the Rocky Mountains, much of the West is suffering from severe drought. Worst hit is California, where the lack of significant rainfall since the autumn of 1975 cost farmers and ranchers an estimated $437 million last year, and snowless ski resorts have lost $7 million so far this season...
...that Jesus was probably born in the autumn of the year 7 B.C. It is more likely that he was born in the previous spring, perhaps during the May conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. The argument supporting this comes from the Bible, Luke 2: 8: "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night." The Judean shepherds were out all night only in the spring. During winter there was no grazing, and the animals were penned...
...professed goals of China's new leadership can be realized until Hua establishes a Mao-like absolutist rule over the nation. To do this, analysts noted, the new Chairman needs the army: only the generals who supported Hua in his bid for power last autumn can keep him there...