Word: reared
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...ironing-board flatness of Texas's High Plains, Lockney, Texas, is about as far removed from inner-city gangs and violence as is possible to get in the lower forty-eight. The nearest city with an airport, Lubbock, is, as the song says, a place best observed from a rear view mirror. Not much happens in these parts. That's the way most people want it. Populated with deeply religious people who like their religion like they like their barbecue sauce--fiery and covering everything--the west Texas Panhandle is one of the last notches on the Bible Belt...
Early in the night, spectators knelt in the aisles and banks of cameras, microphones and recording equipment jammed the rear of the courtroom, but as the two-hour debate turned from overarching ethics to legal minutiae, departing crowds left the hall half-full of spectators fanning themselves with legal briefs...
...REAR (8), chief mathematician. Now: cattle rancher; EW: $100 million...
...thinking about miles per gallon again? Cars.com just rated the best and worst cars for fuel efficiency. Click on Advice, then Best and Worst, then Fuel Economy Results. The Honda Insight, a gas-electric hybrid, beats them all with 61 m.p.g. in the city. Bringing up the rear (and really, really fast) is the $213,500 Ferrari 550 Maranello, which sucks gas like spaghetti, at 8 m.p.g. in town...
...Navy's new generation of women are not just swabbing decks. They've been moving into the highest echelons of the Navy--and the Pentagon as well. Vice Admiral Patricia Tracey is a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Personnel. Rear Admiral Jacqueline Barnes directs the Pentagon's On-Site Inspection Agency, charged with verifying arms-control pacts with other nations. Rear Admiral Barbara McGann is the Navy's top recruiting officer. And Rear Admiral Bonnie Potter is the Atlantic fleet's top doctor...