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Battlefield is the story of one man's communion with the land and with history. The book begins with Svenson's purchase of a forty acre farm at Cross Keys in the mid 1980s. Svenson, a professional artist, bought this rural plot as a place where he could regenerate himself and provide a home for his wife and two children. The land itself and its history did not much interest him at first. But when Svenson realizes that the focus of the Battle of Cross Keys took place on his 40 acres, what began as a casual interest...
...championships move to a different city each year, although organizers usually choose a more rural university setting than Boston, Cronin said. But she praised this year's selection, especially for the location of the culminating race around Harvard Yard...
...less fortunate Americans. Luxury care will become very rare, since almost no coverage will pay for it. Nearly all doctors will probably be salaried employees of plans, and the rest will operate under a government-imposed fee schedule. As more family doctors and clinics spring up in neglected rural areas and scruffy urban neighborhoods, many Americans will find basic medical care readily available for the first time...
...current popularity is a welcome reverse; only a few years ago, she thought that "I was going to die in obscurity." Reared in rural Calvin Center, Michigan, where she performed in storefront churches, she ventured to Los Angeles and got her first break -- and first name change, to Gaby Lee -- warbling love songs at a faux-Parisian nightclub called the Moulin Rouge. She was later dubbed Abbey Lincoln, after the 16th President, by a manager who quipped, "Old Abe didn't really free the slaves, but maybe...
Techniques such as acupuncture and herbal therapy are not solely the property of rural practitioners. On a visit to the premier mental hospital in Beijing. Westerners observed acupuncture being used to treat neurosis and depression...