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Yankton City Councillor David Hosmer says he was sitting in Gipper's, a local restaurant and bar, when he noticed that pictures of Yankton High School football players graced the walls of the building...
According to the theory, the Iowa voters of 1976, catching the campaign on TV screens that had more snow than the back 40, assumed that Reagan still looked like the Gipper. Four years later they had cable...
President Reagan got hoots when he once claimed that trees cause air pollution, but intrepid University of Florida researchers have now confirmed that the Gipper was onto something. A new study of terpenes, a component of the gooey resin in pine tree sap, shows that at least some trees actually do contribute to pollution by reacting with other pollutants and sunlight to produce ozone. While this is not yet cause for alarm, they add, the situation could get worse as temperatures rise because of the "greenhouse effect...
Throughout the years, the Harvard-Pennsylvania game has had an eerily strong tendency to go to the home team. In fact, not since 1980, when the Gipper and Nancy were beginning to move their china into the White House, has a visiting team been victorious. In that year, the Crimson knocked off the Quakers...
There's a reason why this always happens--it's your halftime talks. Kids these days don't respond as well to triumphant tales of Iwo Jima and stories of the Gipper. (In fact, by the time my generation got to know Ronald W. Reagan, he was in the early stages of Alzheimer...