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...light switch or--all but unthinkable--a thunderstorm, and she is overcome by a terror so blinding she can think of nothing but fleeing. That, of course, is not always possible, so over time, Donna has come up with other answers. When she opens the refrigerator door, rubber-soled shoes are a must. If a light bulb blows, she will tolerate the dark until someone else changes it for her. Clothes shopping is done only when necessary, lest static on garments send her running from the store. And swimming at night is absolutely out of the question, lest underwater lights...
...Francis Gagnon, the arrival of foot-and- mouth disease in France has been a saga of bureaucracy and needless slaughter. On March 16, some 40 armed police and 18 veterinary workers in white coats and rubber boots showed up at 6:45 a.m. on his farm in the Burgundy village of Tannerre-en-Puisaye. After police sealed off the farm, the men in white entered his barn and systematically injected a fast-acting poison into more than 833 of his sheep, many of them newborn lambs and heavily pregnant ewes. "No one could move without permission," says Gagnon. "Everyone...
...would be calls for legislation to ban the slaughter," declared an Oklahoman, while an Ohio environmentalist found even more reasons to condemn motor sport: "NASCAR is truly the winningest sport of all--it's tops in noise pollution, and beats out clean air and oil conservation. Wherever NASCAR's rubber meets the road, the human race is the loser...
First, the good news. On the rubber, one sturdy veteran and three promising newcomers all sparkled, though their efforts met with mixed results. And at the plate, the Crimson hammered out 51 hits in the five games, and had no fewer than eight hits...
Sometime around March 25, Guralnick's phone will ring, and she will pack up her things and dash off to be with the Suris. She will stay with them through every push, grunt and moan. And when their baby is born, she will pack up her big rubber ball and move...