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...humble bathtub companions have suddenly become a hit on the charity fund-raising circuit. Participants in the derbies typically donate $5 to adopt a duck, which has a number printed on its bottom. The rubber duckies are dumped en masse into the water; as they float downriver across the finish line, a special duck trap scoops up the winners...
...federal district court had ordered New Hampshire to pay for Medicaid abortions pending the outcome of the case, but the state appealed that injunction to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, the court on which Souter now sits...
...Stock-Car Auto Racing. That is more spectators per event than is averaged by pro football and major league baseball combined. Nearly 40% of audience members are women, up from 25% eight years ago. Televised coverage of this year's Daytona 500, the biggest race of the nine-month circuit, drew a higher rating than the National Basketball Association play-offs...
...door handles, glass and backseats from "stock" cars (i.e., directly off showroom floors) and muscling up the engines in their own garages. Although Johnson had to take an enforced break from driving to serve a 10-month bootlegging sentence, his road skills won him 50 races on the NASCAR circuit. A cult developed around him and other cavalier drivers who flouted the law, pocketed good money, spit tobacco and always had great tales to tell...
Speculation immediately focused on a wide range of possible replacements. Among the most prominent: U.S. Solicitor General Kenneth Starr; U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills; two Fifth Circuit Appeals Judges, Edith Jones of Houston and Patrick Higginbotham of Dallas; and Thornburgh. Bush also has given Gray a list of at least three Hispanics he wanted checked out as possible Justices...