Word: lexington
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...farmers around Lexington are mostly old-fashioned men with a serious problem: the decline in demand for U.S. tobacco. And when they tell you they know of a crop that could help replace tobacco and maybe save their farms, they aren't promoting any stoner foolishness. True, the crop they hope to grow is known to botanists as Cannabis sativa, but different races within that species can have widely varying amounts of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the merrymaking chemical in pot. Marijuana will typically have anywhere from 3% to 20% THC. Hemp is bred to contain less than 1%. You could roll...
...learned the stories behind the figures on Sept. 11. The next evening I walked from my office to the Armory on Lexington Avenue, which was acting as a clearinghouse for emergency supplies, and jotted down the names of the missing whose pictures had been posted on the nearby walls. There they were: Garcia, Munoz, Kuo, Lee, Srinivasan, Khan, Kampour... Nobody has an accurate count of how many foreign nationals died in the World Trade Center--some of the dead held dual nationality, and some undoubtedly were illegal immigrants--but the number was certainly substantial. David Usborne, a reporter...
...Young Choi ’02, a native of Lexington, Mass., said she was able to access Widener as a high school student because of the lax security at Pusey Library, which connects to Widener through an underground tunnel...
Over the coming years, as Harvard College relocated to Lexington and continental troops were billeted in the Yard, Elmwood became a field hospital for George Washington’s troops and the command post of Yale University alumnus and future traitor Benedict Arnold...
...when the families of victims were still searching for information at the Armory on Lexington Avenue, an ambulance was called to come get a guy who was there offering his services to resurrect the dead. I have heard of a whole lot of people showing up in emergency rooms claiming that their wife or husband is missing in the towers, only to have it turn out that the person was never married, and has not lost anyone. My fellow trainees and I are exhausted, numb, bewildered. We are doing too much. We are not doing enough. I have a speech...