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...That's what happened to the Grand Forks Herald in North Dakota last year, a one-two punch from nature that editor Mike Jacobs calls "Hell and High Water." But the 52-strong staff stuck together, wrote the paper in an elementary school, printed it out of Minnesota and handed it out for free. This Tuesday, they got their payback: A Pulitzer for Public Service journalism, one of the highest awards a newspaper can receive. News editor Jeff Beach took it in stride, remembering "that special time during the flood when [the paper] was being snapped...
...students, Mendoza reported, had been culled by herself and her associate Junior Bedayan from the schools of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The program, itself, was the brainchild of Bedayan and Harvard Medical School Professor of Neurology David D. Potter who is also involved in FAS education in the Boston area...
...their first performance outside of their home state of South Dakota...
...Washington these were dry statistics, but in the Midwest, disastrous facts. In North Dakota, which had barely an inch of rain in four months, there was no grass for cattle. Farmers tramped their dusty fields watching their dwarfed grain shrivel and perish. A baking sun raised temperatures to 90[degrees], to 100[degrees]. And still no rain fell. Water was carted for miles for livestock. In Nebraska the State University agronomist gloomily predicted that many fields would not yield over 5 bu. of wheat per acre (normal average: 15 to 20 bu.). In Minnesota they mocked Washington's crop predictions...
There it is, the always mesmerizing playoff breakdown. If that was not convoluted enough, remember these seedings determine positioning in a tournament which determines which team earns the right to enter another tournament (with its own seeding) and attempt to unseat No. 1 North Dakota as national champions...