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...Does America really need to wall itself off?" Think 12 million to 20 million illegal invaders, tons of illegal drugs and more than a thousand associated deaths, just for starters. On the other hand, think of the joy of getting our grass cut on the cheap. Edward Dougherty, Franklin Lake, New Jersey
Florida's leaders believed that if they could just drain the swamp, they could turn a peninsular wasteland into a recreational, agricultural and residential paradise. They failed catastrophically. In 1928, a hurricane blasted Lake Okeechobee, killing some 2,000 pioneers that their promises had drawn to the Everglades...
...increasing burdens, such as taking care of her middle-aged diabetic son and dealing with the publicity she has faced since becoming the oldest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature last October. "When you're young you doubtless think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace," she says. "This is profoundly untrue...
...wall itself off?" Think 12 million to 20 million illegal invaders, tons of illegal drugs and more than a thousand associated deaths, just for starters. Then think of the joy of getting our grass cut on the cheap. Does any other country have such high values? Edward Dougherty, FRANKLIN LAKE...
...fans weren't ready for it. Carlin got thrown out of Las Vegas clubs twice for material that today would seem tame (one offending routine was about his "skinny ass"). At the Playboy Club in Lake Geneva, Wis., his jokes about Vietnam nearly caused an audience riot. "One big blond guy, who would have made a casting director's dream for one of those Nazi officers, said, 'How would you know? You've never been shot at!'" Carlin recalled years later. "Then it became an uproar. Some were standing and leaving; some were shaking their fists at me." Carlin...