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WILL THIS PATCH THINGS UP IN ROME...
...defended their marijuana plantations here with booby traps and shotguns. George Bush sent in U.S. Army troops to battle the domestic druglords. And even now, early fall is signaled less by migrating geese than by helicopters swooping over redwood forests and dropping camouflaged, machete-wielding agents into any telltale patch of sparkling green. Last year state and local officials eradicated 136,957 plants, many 10 ft. tall, with a wholesale value of $450 million...
From the day he first set foot onto the "strawberry patch" in Shea Stadium's right field, with the long, lean frame of Ted Williams and the prodigious speed of a young Mantle, the man with the fruitiest name in the game was the ultimate baseball hero...
From the day he first set foot onto the "strawberry patch" in Shea Stadium's right field, with the long, lean frame of Ted Williams and the prodigious speed of a young Mantle, the man with the fruitiest name in the game was the ultimate baseballer...
...eggs (7), and now to be made into a Serbian stamp (5), is only the latest cultural icon to emerge from a people used to making memorable gestures--like the three-fingered Serb salute (2). From the sassy anti-American graphics of Serbian websites (4) to the menacing tiger patch (6) of Arkan's soldiers to the drawings that children (3) made reportedly "while the bombs were falling," the Serbs are winning the image war. How can the Pentagon, with its business-like flip charts (1), compete...