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...championships attracted more than a hundred amateur-level teams from the eastern seaboard. Play began on Saturday, and a morning and an afternoon game took place each day until Monday...
...arose from an unusual alliance between two environmental organizations, the Natural Resources Defense Council and SeaWeb, and some of the nation's finest chefs, led by Nora Pouillon, owner of the Nora and Asia Nora restaurants in Washington. At least 25 chefs of top-rated eateries along the Atlantic Seaboard from Maine to Texas have pledged not to serve swordfish this year, and some will print information about the campaign on menus. That way diners will learn that swordfish populations are under pressure everywhere and severely depleted in the Atlantic. "As chefs, we are high-profile people," says Robert Taylor...
...biggest gains are being reported by firms in the West, South and Midwest--not the Eastern seaboard, according to the survey. In fact, growth in the West is nearly three times as high as that on the East Coast...
...melodrama was set in Burlington, N.C., a small town about 20 miles from Greensboro, where Dorothy Hutelmyer was twice president of the PTA, her husband Joseph coached baseball and ran Seaboard Underwriters, and Lynne Cox worked as his secretary. The Hutelmyers' was "a storybook marriage," says Dorothy's lawyer Jim Walker. "He wrote poetry to her, love songs...
...decades, scientists have recognized a distinctive belt of eight Southern states where the incidence of stroke is significantly higher than the national average. But a recent study revealed that in one portion of that region, in an area that parallels the Atlantic seaboard, strokes are even more prevalent. Dubbed the Buckle (of the Stroke Belt, that is), these 153 counties in Georgia and the Carolinas have lower average incomes than the rest of the Belt. Scientists thought there must be a relationship between poverty and stroke mortality, but the study shows that only 5% to 16% of the Belt...