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Josie P. Patterson, parent of a Cambridgeport sixth grader, expressed support for D'Alessandro, formerly the superintendent in Fort Myers...
...letter carrier. When the brand-new Florida Marlins held their first open tryout six years ago, a stout 36-year-old mailman named Joe Ciccarone showed up in a Cubs cap and a softball jersey to audition at shortstop. At the time, Ciccarone told Gordon Edes of the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, "When the Marlins win the World Series for the first time in the year 2011, I'll be able to tell my kids I was at their first tryout...
...Scott Paper, Dunlap's last labor, doing these days? Swallowed by Kimberly-Clark. How about former charge Lily-Tulip Inc.? Now a lean, mean division of Fort Howard Paper Co. Once Dunlap's bum-to-plum magic act is done lining shareholder pockets (Dunlap himself owns several million in Sunbeam stock), he takes the last sure price-boosting step: feeding it to a big rival. Then ? poof! ? he's gone...
...substance. (Rohypnol was already scheduled, but the bill would have regulated it further.) Each unit of a scheduled drug must be scrupulously accounted for, and some doctors won't prescribe drugs stigmatized by that heavy designation. In the case of ketamine, neither Parke-Davis, which developed the drug, nor Fort Dodge Laboratories, which makes the veterinary brand Ketaset, opposes tighter restrictions. But the industry's supporters in Congress are loath to change industry-friendly precedent, which allows drugs to be scheduled only after lengthy administrative review. (States are more willing to flout industry wishes. So far, eight have added...
...spit-and-shine military town of Lawton, Okla., real men ain't supposed to cry. This is the home of Fort Sill, a U.S. Army post, where soldiers learn to kill with gun, mortar and missile, where the big boys belly up to the bar at Gertlestone's pub and down stiff shots of Jaegermeister, where the measure of a man lies partly in his ability to tuck his pain away in a place where nobody--nobody--can see it. No tears allowed in plain sight...