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Many farmers held their breath as the spring thaws came to a land still saturated with water. Last April, Blake Hurst, 37, who farms 2,500 acres with his father and two brothers near Westboro, Missouri, stood in a soggy snow flurry and looked down on the family's land in the Tarkio River valley, more than a third of which had been covered with water 15 months ago. Bulldozers growled and snorted, pushing dirt back into breaches in the series of levees that have protected the Hurst holdings for three generations. "What is it going to be this year...
...Revolution, for example, the guide recommends that students examine the lives of individuals who were "in the forefront of the struggle for independence." Samuel Adams and Thomas Paine are plausible candidates here. But is it unreasonable to suspect that the writer Mercy Otis Warren is mentioned in the same breath mainly because she was a woman...
...played against Vin in my first start at varsity in high school," Hu said, as he tried to capture the innocence of youth and the vitality of New Jersey athletics in one breath--tainted though it was. "I played defensive end that game. All I remember is that Vin threw all over us and his team killed...
...actually, I find myself breath-lessly anticipating the college hockey season. Granted, this is always a big thing at Harvard, and I more than many have enjoyed its charms in my first two-and-a-quarter years here...
...start for five years. That's enough time for Kim Jong Il, the new chief in Pyongyang, to embark on a whole new nuke program if he so chooses -- and to do so with U.S. loans that come with today's accord. "A lot of people are holding their breath," says Thompson...