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Until recently, 11 residents of Greenwich, Conn. have suffered in silence. For on their mailboxes, in fine rubber-plastic, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold glitter, appear the words, “Hooker Street.” Not Hooker as in Rev. Thomas Hooker, the esteemed colonial minister who helped create the model document for the U.S. Constitution. Hooker as in the family name of the wife of the guy who developed the strip in the late 1960s. Big difference, though not the biggest issue for embarrassed residents...
...depends on whether we win the gold medal or not,” Ruggiero says. “When we won in 1998, it revitalized the sport in the U.S. with the NCAA and everything. Then, after Canada won in 2002, the sport blossomed there...
...DIED. BEST MATE, 10, champion Irish-born steeplechase racehorse; in Exeter, England. A three-time winner of the prestigious Cheltenham Gold Cup and beloved by racegoers, the legendary gelding collapsed from a heart attack just before the last jump on the Exeter course as his trainer, Henrietta Knight, looked on. Known to millions of fans as "Matey," he had just returned to form after recuperating from a burst blood vessel. "He died doing what he loved, which was to race," said Knight, of the graceful, gutsy and reliable jumper...
...medieval science of alchemy sought to transform base metals into gold. Aaron Patterson, the chef at Hambleton Hall, is an alchemist of tomatoes who turns the humble salad staple into something precious. He infuses the fruit into sorbets and foams, shaves it as thin as carpaccio or, in his signature dish, essence of tomatoes with Scottish langoustines, distills it to a clear soup of startlingly intense and glorious flavor...
Meanwhile, down at Princeton University, West looked as if he had just walked out of the frame, his trademark hairdo and beard as carefully styled as ever, and his shiny gold cufflinks complementing his black three-piece suit...