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...town of Newport, Maine, citizens took advantage of their right to vote in order to decide a burgeoning community controversy over topless gardening. The hubbub began this past summer when Desiree Davis, a conscientious homeowner, took her lawnmower out of her garage and went to work on her front yard. Apparently the heat and humidity caused Desiree some discomfort, as she decided her task would be better completed sans shirt. She enjoyed the experience so much, she decided to make a habit of it. This aroused the ire of her puritanical neighbor, Mary Thompson, who felt it inappropriate that yard...
Defense analyst Paul Nisbet of JSA Research in Newport, R.I., cautions, however, that "investors shouldn't expect any dramatic change in the growth or earnings of these companies." Recent appreciation in defense stocks, he says, only marks a climb back from their 10% drop following the Pentagon's blocking of further defense-industry mergers earlier this year...
...culminated an entire summer during which Blake met the world's best and fared quite well. At the satellite level he defeated Stanford's Mike Bryan, as well as No. 484 Raviv Weidenfeld and No. 350 Alex Reichl. On the ATP circuit, he competed at the tennis classic in Newport, R.I., where he lost in three sets to the quirky Jeff Tarango, currently ranked No. 62, and narrowly lost No. 145 Alex Radulescu, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5 in the first round of qualifiers at the Pilot Pen International Tennis Tournament...
Joey Bishop, 80 years old now, is not at all sentimental about the Rat Pack's renewed cultural currency. Nor is he pleased. On the phone from Newport Beach, Calif., where he lives with his wife of 57 years, Sylvia, he says he doesn't much like giving interviews (while graciously agreeing to this one). So, I ask, to what does he attribute the ongoing obsession with his early '60s apotheosis, the nights in Vegas clowning around on stage and off with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford? "Could it be anything else but money...
Late last week, his testimony completed, Craig Venter packed his gear, boarded the Sorcerer and prepared to compete in the Newport-to-Bermuda race. For Venter, this contest should be a cup of tea. Unlike his venture into the human genome, this will be a voyage into fully charted waters...