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Well, there’s a lot for the region to prove, and the people defend themselves by going overboard in most anything they do. In Michigan, especially in the Upper Peninsula and western parts of the state, the hunting and gun culture is celebrated with almost as much gusto as the Christian faith. Cars driving through the Hiawatha National Park were adorned with bumper stickers slogans like “A man with a gun is a citizen. A man without a gun is a subject,” and many still sport post-September 11 flags. Gun culture...
Mayor Walter Sullivan, who smokes and voted against the ordinance said, "Harvard is enforcing it really. They went overboard in my estimation...
...examining the logbooks of U.S. fishing boats operating in the northwestern Atlantic from 1986 to 2000. The fleets were hunting swordfish and tuna using what are known as longlines, cables stretching as long as 20 miles that are equipped with more than 500 baited hooks. Toss a line overboard, and up should come your desired prey--plus a lot of other hungry fish that you didn't mean to snag. "Longlines are designed to collect large marine predators," says biologist Julia Baum, lead author of the Science paper. "But sharks often swim in the same area as tuna and swordfish...
...Harvard School of Public Health. To get the most benefit, it's best to use nuts as a substitute for high-carb snack foods such as potato chips and pretzels. But because nuts weigh in at an average of 150 calories an ounce, you shouldn't go overboard. --By Janice M. Horowitz
WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE GOING OVERBOARD IN BEING TOO FORMAL? American life has been so relentlessly informal that when people have the chance for formality, like high school proms and weddings, they go out of their minds...