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...right now, as usual, his eyes are on the future. "All of this, right back through there," he says, his hand traversing the horizon from the CNN Center-dominated southwest skyline up north past the big red Nike swoosh and into the northwest wasteland, that crumbling welter of faded-brick buildings and crack-vial sidewalks whose putative renewal could turn out to be these Games' most enduring local legacy. "This," the prophet says with unfathomable certitude, "is where it's all going to grow...
Among the stranger pursuits of science these days is the effort to exhume dead celebrities. Meriwether Lewis, of the pair of famous Northwest explorers, is the latest to be marked for elevation. He joins a lengthening list that includes President Zachary Taylor, the parents of Lizzie Borden, John Wilkes Booth, Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Marilyn Monroe and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion...
...Heavy MOSQUITO INFESTATIONS are expected this June in the Pacific Northwest, Midwest, Great Lakes, Southeast and New England regions. The winter's wet and wacky weather...
Mildbrandt was probably driving to a fish pond in the Fitchburg area, northwest of Boston, where he conducted his thesis research, said one of his two Somerville roommates, Wendy Weston...
...anarchist convictions. His truck used to have ED KIENHOLZ--EXPERT painted on the door. You might not trust Roy Lichtenstein to frame a shed or Jasper Johns to re-weld a railing, but Kienholz was doing that stuff since childhood. He was brought up on a farm in the Northwest, near Fairfield, Washington. He could fix anything, combine anything, so that it worked. But as an artist he was entirely self-taught, and he could neither draw well nor paint convincingly on a flat surface...