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...flower bed was a sentimental waste or, worse, an attempt to improve on nature's creation. After Pearl Harbor, when America already grew enough food to feed half the world, 20 million people planted Victory gardens in 1943 in, among other places, a Portland, Oregon, zoo and a Chicago racetrack. Such mass gardening was supposed to help prevent juvenile delinquency, improve the national health and, in the process, "help beet the enemy." Ever since, Americans have found plenty of high moral fiber in their yard work. In the dirt you could cleanse your soul...
...brutal--at their nadir. Nella (Alexandra Marolachakis) is widowed after her husband dies in a freak accident; she and her children, Susannah and Andrew (Rebecca Wolfe and Dan Goor), are forced to move in with their seamy relatives, who spend most of their time either bickering or at the racetrack...
...some of CDF's scientists fret that they have overlooked some fatal flaw. They believe there is still 1 chance in 400 that they could be wrong, which seems extremely small to laypeople. But it is sobering to remember that odds that seem like a sure bet at a racetrack are not enough to support scientific claims. Over the coming months, the lingering uncertainty that surrounds last week's announcement should be dispelled as more data are collected, not just by CDF but by a rival detector that goes by the name of DZero. If the top really...
Lobbyists--including the Farm Bureau and the Teamsters, in California--often control legislators' votes, much like racetrack jockeys, he said. Talking to the legislator is like "talking to the horse," he said...
...Monday, Cherry Hill, New Jersey: Clinton's bus brigade crossed the finish line at the Garden State Racetrack as they drove into an exuberant fireworks-and-fanfare rally. As promised, the candidate shook hands -- hundreds of them -- and played a four-bar break on the saxophone with the Dovells, a local 1960s group. But Clinton could not resist speaking for five minutes. Before leaving the raceway, Clinton posed in the cold rain with a two-year-old trotter named Bubba Clinton, who had won a race earlier that week at the long-shot odds of 37 to 1. Asked what...