Word: marsh
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...Charleston, S.C., savoring his childhood. There is the clapboard house where he lived until he was 12. Here is the elementary school. "Had my first dance with a girl there," he says. The reverie ends when Ball walks to the end of a pier where the sulfur smell of marsh grass rises, as rank as the tale he unspools. An estimated 40% of American slaves arrived first at this spot. Confused, terrified, usually sick, they spent two weeks quarantined in "pest houses" or onboard ship. Those who got better sailed on to Charleston and bondage. Those who didn't turned...
Shoumatoff gives less space to Anglo culture, but he does introduce the reader to Stanley Marsh, the whimsical gent who buried 10 baby blue Cadillacs on end near Amarillo, Texas, and to New Age purveyors of what he accurately calls hooey in Sedona, Ariz. For the refried Spanish architecture mandatory in the tonier quarter of Santa Fe, N.M., he borrows a glorious slur from an exasperated architect that the regional hothead Edward Abbey could have said more noisily but not better: Taco Deco...
...preliminary assessment: very vulnerable. "The only question is when," says Arizona Republican SENATOR JON KYL, who pushed for the formation of the commission, which will deliver a secret report to the President in October. The panel's chairman, Robert Marsh, says radical groups like the Irish Republican Army are looking at ways to wage "economic terrorism," and computer assaults are already rampant. A hacker shut down computers at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia last winter by sending in 30,000 E-mail messages. The Langley machines were paralyzed for six hours...
Most Premarin farms are located in Canada, and some are in North Dakota and Montana. Since raising a foal requires special expertise that few of us have, we can help by subsidizing those who do have this expertise. --Greta Marsh Lanesboro, Mass...
Gardiner does enjoy relaxing outside in the wilderness, going canoeing and camping with her boyfriend Anestis and her family, which also includes older brother Marsh and little sister Elizabeth...