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While Wahlberg, given more time behind the center, certainly will improve and perhaps flourish, after one game Rose is the more polished quarterback...
...fought only in the West. David Govus owns 250 acres in the mountains of North Georgia, next to the 750,000-acre Chattahoochee National Forest, a haven for migratory pitted warblers, oven birds and other species that flourish amid the May apples and jack-in-the-pulpits, rare mountain orchids and yellow lady slippers. In the late 1800s, despite decades of heavy logging, there remained thousands of acres of unbroken forest thick with giant hardwoods. "Some of it could be like that again," says Govus. "It might take 400 to 500 years, but look at what we could leave...
...mining towns, the scarcity of women helped bordellos flourish, but "Butte boasted of having the prettiest women of any red-light district, and it was true," Charlie Chaplin noted in his autobiography. Cops looked the other way. "It kept the miners occupied," says Ellen Baumler of the Montana Historical Society. "The women paid money that went right into city coffers"--until 1982, when a new, reform-minded sheriff closed the Dumas, the last of its kind. The mines closed a year later, and Butte was changed forever...
...dominating the charts, these online destinations are an exciting alternative. "The Internet is like cable television," says Ken Wirt, founder and CEO of Riffage. "Music that appeals to a smaller niche audience can still exist, so bands that are the equivalent of Comedy Central or Animal Planet can flourish...
Juan Maldacena with a set of mathematical equations is like a magician with a wand. He can take rows of arcane symbols that describe the gravitational weirdness of a black hole and, with a flourish, pull from them equations that look suspiciously like those that govern the will-o'-the-wisp interactions of subatomic particles. What's more, the associate professor of physics at Harvard University can perform the same trick in reverse, effectively concealing the rabbit back inside...