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...suit will hinge on the fact that the first confirmed case of H1N1 appears to be a 5-year-old Mexican boy from La Gloria who lived not far from the Smithfield pork-farming operation. Local villagers had been complaining about the smell and the vast amounts of manure created by the Smithfield pig farms for some time, and H1N1 infection rates in the community were high. The idea that factory farming - where pigs are packed together closely - could provide a breeding ground for new viruses also has some scientific backing. A recent study by the Pew Charitable Trusts...
...Coach and part owner of the 'Yotes, hockey's messiah has made it clear that he'll live and die by Phoenix. But for those who've been lifelong followers of the soaring saga of No. 99 - the boy-king whose almost supernatural insight into the game and how it was played changed hockey forever and permanently ensconced the always humble pride of Brantford as the game's Luke Skywalker and Jesus Christ - this potential move would represent a welcome twist and fitting conclusion to the Gretzky narrative. (See pictures of shoes worn by Olympic athletes...
...Think of all those images you've ever seen of the toddler Wayne Gretzky learning to wield a stick on his backyard rink in southern Ontario. Now think of that little boy growing up to become a legend, the best the game has ever seen. Now think of that legend coaching a Canadian team to the ultimate victory, lifting another Cup over his head 30 years after his first win. While his father looks on. Less than a half an hour from where Baby Wayne was born. If that story doesn't choke you up at least a little, then...
...youth, their sounds and smells and emotions, stick with us for life, as a comfort or reproach. They have an indelible immediacy: the room you were in the first time you heard That Song, a school outing that revealed fresh pleasures, the weight of an early crush on some boy or girl, the thrill or shiver at a favorite movie - all these are embedded in muscle memory...
...Feeling apart, alien, inferior, Terry was drawn to "Jimmy Preston, who was a real boy, and whom I envied; Jimmy Preston, who once put his hand on my shoulder, and I didn't want him to remove it." Homosexuality was not just a sin to Catholics; in Britain it was a crime. (Davies cites the condemnation of a judge about to sentence two gay men: "Not only have you committed an act of gross indecency, but you did it under one of London's most beautiful bridges.") But the need to be with another man was too strong to resist...