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...first ginkgo trees appeared on Earth some 230 million years ago. Charles Darwin called them living fossils. The plants are so primitive that they do not produce flowers and yet so hardy that one survived the atomic blast that destroyed Hiroshima. The Chinese have venerated the ginkgo's foul-smelling fruit for thousands of years, using it for everything from promoting longevity to increasing sexual endurance. And in the past decade, extract of ginkgo has become one of Europe's most widely prescribed drugs...
...Republicans are crying foul; Democrats are likely to point out that being observant is not a crime. And it's not likely to get juicier than that...
...Orioles and Indians fans take heed: the gods of the diamond are as fickle as they are fantastic, word is Jeff Maier has right-field box seats for all the LCS games and Richie Garcia is calling both foul lines...
...called time out and trotted out to the rightfield foul line. I tried as best I could to calm the rightfielder down, telling him that we were still winning, that we wouldn't be winning without him, that we needed him to put his glove back on. I also told him, though I'm not sure he heard me, not to worry about crying because Lou Gehrig cried...
DIED. SCHOICHI YOKOI, 82, die-hard Japanese soldier who emerged from his jungle hideout on Guam 27 years after World War II ended; of heart failure; in Nagoya. When leaflets drifted down from U.S. planes announcing the war's end, Yokoi suspected foul play on the part of the Allies. Counting the years by the cycles of the moon and crafting clothing from tree-bark fibers, Yokoi honored his pledge never to surrender. Two hunters who stumbled upon him in 1972 passed on the news of Japan's defeat...