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...particular delight, as do the names of birds and men. The strange birds give the narrative its own kind of plumage: teal, merganser, kittiwake, cormorant. When the men of the town are searching for a dinghy lost in the fog, they track each other by calling out names: " 'Richmond Fauvette, this is Oliver Parmelee.' 'Oliver Parmelee, this is Fabian...
...beat Boston University, 5-4; Boston College, 9-0; Richmond, 5-1; and then George Washington, 5-3. It dropped its final fall match to a tough Virginia team, 5-0, but that could hardly dampen the team's irrepressible optimism...
...DeNoble and Mele were hired to find a substitute for nicotine that would have a less harmful effect on the heart. Philip Morris insisted on intense secrecy, so much so that laboratory rats were smuggled into the Richmond, Virginia, facility sometimes under cover of night. The researchers were instructed not to discuss the project with anyone...
...scientists returned to Richmond only to hear talk of moving the experiments out of Virginia and as far away as Switzerland. Then in April 1984 a supervisor summoned DeNoble and ordered him to turn off the machines, kill the rats and turn over his notes. A few days later, DeNoble came to work and found that "the animals were gone; the data was gone. Everything was gone." Attempts by DeNoble and Mele to publish their findings were blocked...
...Music Man and medicine show and all uplift, with dialogue inspired by the Bible, Poor Richard's Almanac, Calvinism, common sense and Horatio Alger. The show has already been to Seattle, San Jose, Washington, San Francisco, Anaheim, San Diego, Phoenix, Houston and Columbia. Coming up: Cleveland, Youngstown, Akron, Richmond, Sarasota, Rochester, Chicago...