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...finding him a Derby runner, and the two hoped their hunch would pay off. Did it ever. War Emblem won the Derby in style, going off as a 20-to-1 shot and leading wire to wire. Two weeks later, in the Preakness, the "speed" horses were supposed to drain War Emblem like a cheap battery. He won going away. "Baffert and the Prince were able to see that they could move [War Emblem] up in class," says Tom Hammond, a racing expert...
Newspapers across the northeast, and indeed across the nation, were filled this year with stories about Harvard faculty leaving. Some articles even warned of a “brain drain...
...outside contractor cleaned the clogged drain, a process that took a few hours and, according to Alpert, should solve the fruit fly problem...
...Washington was poised to enjoy an unlikely job boom. Almost half the Federal Government's 1.8 million workers will be eligible to retire within five years. From the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Park Service to the Commerce, Energy and State departments, agencies are bracing for a brain drain, especially at the managerial level. And these aren't your classic paper-pushing jobs--although many of those, as at the busy Social Security Administration, are also going begging...
...contained illustrations of fruit. Joey pretended to pick the fruit off the page and eat it, offering me a bite. Again I flashed back to those evaluation forms: "Does your child engage in pretend/imaginative play?" Nate's idea of play is to drop sticks and small stones into a drain at the playground. He could do this for hours if we let him. Last week Joey took a long noodle from his bowl of soup, dragged it across the table and said, "Look, it's a train. There's the freight car." Then Nate took a noodle from his soup...