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...Buster") Linville, 77, is an Oak Ridge tobacco farmer who owns 300 acres of land and lives in an antiques-filled ranch house overlooking his own fishing pond. "Tobacco farmers are just doing fair," says he. "All the antismoking stuff does not add to our income, and farmers are afraid tobacco will leave them." Linville believes Gore will look out for his interests. "He's more Southern than the rest of them," he says. But "I'm not enthused," he concludes, adding cryptically...
...first stop, we witness the slimed zombies of the "pond-scum" cycle. Here, intense fall passion throbs within the confines of the Yard, a house or--horrors--a single entry. However, such wild affection can often mutate into something unrecognizeable. In a matter of weeks, both parties are left shell-shocked, embittered and unimpressed at the range of derogatory vocabulary each other employs. Words to watch out for: you slimebag; you used me; or, worst of all, it was a misunderstanding...
...known when she was 20. Now 67, she has devised her cardinal rules for aging: entertain a lot, never pass up an invitation, and by all means fall in love. On a hilltop outside her home in Salado, Texas, she entertains friends in the Jacuzzi she calls her "golden pond." Every month she gathers with fellow members of the Bay at the Moon Society, a group of large-lunged Texans who meet at a different ranch to sing and holler at the midnight sky. "Aging has become very stylish," Carpenter concludes happily. "All the best people are doing...
...idea of the capture-recapture" statistical technique, Donald B. Rubin, chairman of the Statistics Department, says of his census modification technique. Rubin explains the new procedure as similar to the method biology researchers use to study bird and animal populations. "It's like tagging fish in a pond, releasing them, and catching them again to see how the population has changed," he says...
...know that Central Square is choked up because of all these shopping centers? We're in the middle of shopping centers," Vellucci said, citing Watertown's Arsenal Mall, the Fresh Pond Mall, and Harvard Square as some of the areas that compete with Central Square...