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...near Seattle. When he was 15 and a tenth-grader, the company grossed $20,000 ... While he was working as a congressional page in 1972, he and a friend snapped up 5,000 McGovern-Eagleton campaign buttons for a nickel each just after South Dakota's George McGovern dumped Missouri Senator Thomas Eagleton from the Democratic ticket. They later sold the scarce mementos for as much as $25 each." Read more at timearchive.com...
...Enron, who was convicted in May of fraud and conspiracy in the spectacular 2001 collapse of the mammoth energy company; while free on a $5 million bond as he awaited his October sentencing; of heart disease; in Aspen, Colorado. Born to a poor family in rural Missouri, Lay became a friend to Presidents (George W. Bush famously nicknamed him "Kenny Boy") and a Wall Street darling whose renown grew in step with Enron's soaring stock price. But the emergence in 2001 of the truth about Enron and its scandalous business practices ruined that reputation?although Lay maintained his innocence...
...Enron, who was convicted in May of fraud and conspiracy in the spectacular 2001 collapse of the mammoth energy company; while free on a $5 million bond as he awaited his October sentencing; of heart disease; in Aspen, Colo. Born to a poor family in rural Missouri, Lay became a friend to Presidents (George W. Bush famously nicknamed him "Kenny Boy") and a Wall Street darling whose renown grew in step with Enron's soaring stock price. But the emergence in 2001 of the truth about Enron and its scandalous business practices ruined that reputation--although Lay maintained his innocence...
...with officers from other Midwestern cities, federal agents and even Mexico to chase a rabid killer - a silent but deadly assassin that has so far claimed at least 70 lives in and around Chicago, as many as 200 others in the Detroit area and dozens more in states from Missouri to New Jersey. But the suspect isn't a serial killer; it's a lethal brand of the drug fentanyl, sometime mixed with an already potent batch of heroin, or even cocaine or alcohol...
...ethically and preserve farmland around their cities are embracing locally grown food as the eco-healthy choice. Farmers' markets are thriving, along with community-supported agriculture, through which people subscribe to a monthly produce basket. And on locavore websites, converts swap shopping tips (Goatsbeard Farm feta from a Missouri cook) and recipes (cheese grits via a Georgia blogger who plugs a stone-ground variety from a mill powered by a mule named Luke). Some boast of eating local on a budget-- $8.34 a day in the case of an Oakland, Calif., activist who got by on sorrel-potato soup...