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...tell that to Guy Cubaynes, a truffle harvester from the southern French town of Lalbenque, who is taking his 250-kg pig named Kiki for her first truffle hunt of the season. Cubaynes' family has been gathering truffles since the 1850s, searching for the fungi under the shade of oak trees. He says dealers in Chinese truffles have even infiltrated the center of French truffle production. Every week, Cubaynes claims, these merchants show up at the market in Lalbenque with the same number of truffles in their baskets, a suspicious constancy that normal truffle collecting does not tend to provide...
...League’s leaders in field-goal percentage, Harvard finished just a shade under 50 percent for the game. Surprisingly, the Bulldogs shot from a high clip from the field as well—47.8 percent—but the wasted possessions on turnovers proved the difference, with the Crimson attempting 13 more shots in each half...
...like brothers and sisters," recalls a monk at Ba Pai temple near Narathiwat. Today what both sides share is fear, paranoia and a simmering anger that the violence now threatens their homes. In the Buddhist village of Tung Kha, 54-year-old headwoman Penporn Suranatukul sits in the shade of a postcard-perfect temple, watching soldiers fill sandbags. Penporn lives in dread of Islamic militants. "They want to chase the Buddhists out," she says, her eyes welling with tears. "We're just sitting here, waiting to be killed...
DIED. HARRY LAMPERT, 88, original illustrator of superhero the Flash, nemesis of such bad guys as the Thinker and the Shade; in Boca Raton, Fla. Lampert and writer Gardner Fox first introduced the "fastest man alive" in 1940 as the Golden Age of comic books was just unfolding. Their Flash--a scientist who could morph into a red-and-blue--clad speedster with a winged helmet--was an immediate hit. But Lampert, who preferred drawing gags for Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post, left after a few issues, later founding an award-winning ad agency...
...senior Brian Edwards along with sophomore Corey Mazza lining up outside in Murphy’s base sets. With defenses throwing double teams at Edwards early in the season, Mazza became Fitzpatrick’s primary receiver. But as Mazza emerged as a serious deep threat causing defenses to shade safeties in his direction, Edwards has taken advantage of the single coverage in the second half. Junior Ryan Tyler has been a quality third receiver, catching 20 balls on the season. Tyler—who converted this season to receiver after Dawson’s emergence...