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...GIVE US A CHANCE, we can perform. After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels." A loud round of applause greeted Ann Richards, then state treasurer of Texas and a rising star in the Democratic party, as she spoke these words at the 1988 Democratic national convention...
Easy For You To Say: "I would tell her to do it every time, but she has to get a card," very egalitarian women's soccer Coach Tim Wheaton told the linesman after Crimson back Amy Weinstein made a diving block with her hands to stop the Green's Ginger Smith from scoring on an empty...
Much of this was courtesy of the heroics of Weinstein and Harvard netminder Beth Reilly--who stuffed the Big Green's Ginger Smith on two one-on-one chances...
...most dramatic threats are in Hawaii, where the 900 indigenous plant species -- some found nowhere else in the world -- face new competition from another 900 species of nonnative plants, including banana poka and ornamental ginger. The banana poka was imported in the 1950s by a Japanese gardener, and has since spread its vines over 16,200 hectares (40,000 acres). Other exotics were introduced in the 1930s in an attempt to conserve water and stem soil erosion. Now biologists fear a time when the native plants will be completely gone from places like Haleakala National Park...
...perfect distillation of the best of new American culinary inventiveness, in which old favorites get a new twist from the clever combination of other flavors. Good old soft-shell crab, for instance, gets dressed up nicely in a simple deglazing sauce made with lime juice and grated ginger, which breaks up the usual overly buttery taste of this summer treat...