Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Illinois, as they take last year's crop out of elevators and silos to make way for the new harvest, they are building corn mountains on the ground in a desperate rush against nature's inexorable deadlines. Melvin Bell of Deer Creek stands these days and watches as his old corn is sprayed in a giant stream 40 ft. into the air to shower down and create another glowing peak that can be seen for miles across the tableland. "They say McDonald's has the Golden Arches," he chuckles. "We do better." Storing corn outdoors is risky. Bell lays down...
...first three groups. Leif and Lori--described by a neighbor as "the kind of girl who used to wear jeans, climb fences and carry rocks in her pockets"--were married outdoors on a working ranch in a small grove of oak trees by a creek. Thinking about the troubled farm economy, Rancher John Wilson looked around and said, "It's a happy thing to see all the cars here and not have it be an auction...
...vows, and then the gathering of 100 guests quietly sang America the Beautiful. A deer watched from behind a tree. Afterward, while the bride and bridegroom headed off for a reception in the double garage of her parents' home in Eureka, Flower Girl Elizabeth Browning wandered down to the creek and dropped petals from her bouquet into the water, watching the slow current take them away...
...they take strong issue with practition-ers of "creation science," who purport to offer scientific evidence that this Fred Flintstone version of prehistory is correct. For decades a strong piece of that "evidence" has been a cluster of fossilized tracks in the seasonally dry bed of the Paluxy Creek, near Glen Rose, Texas. One track of three-toed footprints was obviously made by a dinosaur. The feet that made another track, crossing the first at an angle, lacked the giant toes and looked human to some. The fact that the two varieties of tracks were made at about the same...
TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO, in a small house-hospital in the tiny town of Silver Creek, N.Y., 30 miles southwest of Buffalo, Ross Charles Gennuso looked down at his grandson Brian Ross Gennuso and muttered, "There's gonna be a bright...