Word: ohio
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...troops hope to ignite the party faithful who have been looking for the Secretary to revive the lagging campaign. Baker's arrival could not be sooner: the G.O.P. has concluded that if it is to win in November, it absolutely must win at least two of three key states: Ohio, Michigan and New Jersey. It has already written off Pennsylvania, Illinois and New York...
...interest in this alarming story can be traced back to his childhood in Canton, Ohio. "I've been fascinated with this subject ever since grade school. I remember the drills where we cowered under our desks as we prepared for the big one," he says. "My generation was shaped by the Bomb. In a way, I've been reporting this story for decades." In the interim, though, Ted made his mark in journalism. He joined TIME in 1987 after serving eight years on the investigative staff at the Washington Post, where his work won a Pulitzer nomination, a George Polk...
Nevertheless, some of Bellows' finest paintings were set on an island at the farthest possible remove from Manhattan: Monhegan, on the Maine coast, where his idol Winslow Homer had also painted. Though born and raised in Ohio, Bellows had coastal roots -- his grandfather was a whaler at Montauk on the eastern tip of New York's Long Island -- and the Atlantic was as fundamental a source of imaginative nourishment to him as it had been to Melville or Whitman. "We two and the great sea," he wrote to his wife in a moment of romantic exaltation, "and the mighty rocks...
...Eastern equine encephalitis, a deadly brain disease that can infect humans, has been detected in mosquitoes in Florida. That's troublesome, because the more aggressive Asian tigers feed on a broader range of animals than their American cousins. Tigers are found in the Eastern U.S., as far north as Ohio...
...state's lousy economy is blamed on us. We'd need a big recovery to get competitive there, and we're not going to get it." The bottom line of this early speculation is familiar: another election decided by small margins in the Rust Belt bastions -- Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan...