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...They put us in this box, and we'll race like this until we kill somebody, and then they'll change it.' CARL EDWARDS, race-car driver, criticizing NASCAR for the design of the Talladega Superspeedway, after his car wrecked during the last lap of the Sprint Cup, injuring eight...
...wild, experts predict that the species could disappear in less than 20 years if more is not done to preserve their habitat. In the battle to save the orangutan, the camp is at once the front line and a sanctuary. And as a bright-eyed baby climbs into your lap, you cannot help but wonder, with some sadness, if Camp Leakey is also the orangutan's last stand...
...does partisanship better than the Ragin' Cajun. In his latest book, the Louisiana-bred campaign strategist, who recently returned to teach political science at Tulane, takes a victory lap celebrating the Democrats' 2008 electoral trifecta. "The myth of Republican competence and fiscal responsibility is shattered," a victim of the strategic and economic missteps of the Bush years, Carville gleefully notes. If Democrats play their cards right, he argues, they can dominate politics for the next four decades. The key? "To rebuild Americans' trust in government as a force of good." His excitability is infectious, if only to those...
...break-through and a very large improvement for me,” Gillepsie said. “Great race” is an understatement, according to his teammates and coach, especially since Gillepsie demolished his previous best by 22 seconds, almost two seconds faster per lap on a 400-meter track, while qualifying for the NCAA Regionals.“It was a monstrous PR,” said junior distance runner Robert Kenney. “That kind of a leap is almost unprecedented, so it’s a big deal for him personally...
...life, I am a mother," says Tapia, who is in her 30s and is the mother of seven kids, four of whom live in the prison with her. (The others live with her mother.) "They are best with me," she adds, as her three-year-old snuggles into her lap, "regardless of where that is." (See pictures from a women's prison in Iraq...