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August's local and national holidays include Lizzie Borden Liberation Day, celebrated in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich,; Big Band Sunday, in Cornwall, Pa.; Wausau's Funday and Possum Festival in Chipley, Fla.; National Smile Week in San Antonio; the International Zucchini Festival in Harrisville, N.H.; as well as the Army Nurses Pay Raise Anniversary and the birthday of Joseph Justus Scaliger, described by loyalists as "the founder of scientific chronology...
Treurnicht: Ma-in-law could work in the kitchen while Pa-in-law could help out in the garden...
...something to be proud of," says Ron Weisen, whose United Steelworkers of America Local 1397 in Homestead, Pa., was one of the first organizations to receive a Springsteen contribution, almost a year ago. "He worries about the underfed and the underprivileged." Says Robert Muller, president of the Vietnam Veterans of America: "We would not exist if it were not for Bruce Springsteen." Back in 1981, when, as Muller says, "nobody wanted to hear about the Viet Nam War," a Springsteen concert raised about $100,000 for the V.V.A. "That was the beginning of Bruce's political involvement," Muller thinks...
...PRICE -- Pottstown, Pa...
...English has been adding Maori words to its lexicon since Captain Cook noted that fortified Maori villages were called pa. British settlers readily adopted Maori names for indigenous animals and plants, from kakapo birds to kauri pines. But the use of Maori words has surged in the past 15 years as te reo schools have multiplied and Maori activists gained clout. Terms like kaumatua (tribal elder) and taonga (cultural treasures) have come into play because they express concepts for which there's no English equivalent, says Macalister. But some words have been picked up because they're more economical than...