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...week was not without its crop of rumors. At Syracuse, N. Y. there was a flurry when it was discovered that a baby favoring the Lindbergh child had arrived on a nearby farm. A Lockheed low-wing monoplane alighted at Newark Airport and its two passengers electrified spectators with a package containing "something alive." The plane, it developed, belonged to Asa Candler ("Coca-Cola") of Atlanta, Ga. "Something alive" was a pair of small monkeys which Mr. Candler was sending to friends in New Hampshire...
Tensions between old-timers and new arrivals -- or "newbies" -- flare up every September as a new crop of college freshmen (armed with their first Internet accounts) are loosed upon the network. But the annual hazing given clueless freshmen pales beside the welcome America Online users received last March, when the Vienna, Virginia-based company opened the doors of the Internet to nearly 1 million customers. It was bad enough that America Online users, clearly identifiable by the aol.com attached to their user IDs, were making all the usual mistakes -- asking dumb questions, posting messages in the wrong place and generally...
Following in the footsteps of the current crop of sophomores, such as attackman Greg Cohen (11 goals and 15 assists in 2004), midfielder Brian Mahler (10 goals and four assists), and midfielder Evan Calvert (eight goals and four assists), the current crop of Crimson freshmen looked anything but inexperienced in Harvard’s 12-9 victory over Bucknell...
...orphaned grandchildren. Her small farm plot, a little more than an acre in all, would be too small to feed her family even if the rains had been plentiful. The soil nutrients have been depleted so significantly in this part of Malawi that crop yields reach only about a half-ton per acre, about one-third of normal. This year, because of the drought, she will get almost nothing. She reaches into her apron and pulls out a handful of semi-rotten, bug-infested millet, which will be the basis for the gruel she will prepare for the meal that...
...voters who arguably owe their new democracy to U.S. military intervention nonetheless voted against the U.S., there's no reason to believe the outcome would be different in the other key Arab autocracies - genuine democracy would likely produce governments less friendly towards the United States than are the current crop of autocrats...