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...admitted to strangling his wife and dismembering her body at his family's tool-and-die shop. Grant then put several pieces of his wife in garbage bags, scattering them in a wooded section of parkland close to the family home in a semi-rural area laced with muddy dirt road and snow-covered fields more than 40 miles north of the center of Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Detroit, Rich Crime, Poor Crime | 3/5/2007 | See Source »

While it was Harvard’s first game of the season, it was Lehigh’s sixth. The Crimson has not had much opportunity to practice on infield dirt but has instead been confined to the stadium turf inside the bubble. The transition to outdoors proved to be a difficult...

Author: By Kara T. Kelley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Softball Takes Two in Opening Tourney | 3/4/2007 | See Source »

...first day took us a while to get our nerves out” Kidder said. “We were not used to the hops of the dirt after practicing in the bubble all winter...

Author: By Kara T. Kelley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Softball Takes Two in Opening Tourney | 3/4/2007 | See Source »

Blomgren runs Windflower with his wife Jan. He is 46, and on the day we rode to the farm, he wore sandals and glasses. Ted, who has a degree from Cornell, is balding and studious, and might pass for a professor if he didn't have so much dirt under his toenails. Ted and Jan--who has lovely bright blue eyes perpetually fixed in a startled expression--have operated Windflower for eight years with their sons Nathaniel, 14, and Jacob, 11. On the day I visited last summer, I watched a barefoot Nathaniel walk to the henhouse to collect eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eating Better Than Organic | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

...deflated to hear that I had ingested chemicals with my fruit and eggs. But at this point I threw up my hands. If I wanted total purity, the only option was to grow my own food. Forget it. Farming is dirt-under-the-toenails hard work, and the Blomgrens are by no means making a vast fortune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eating Better Than Organic | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

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