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...Bushes themselves are keeping a low profile, splitting their time between the ranch and their new home in Dallas. The former First Couple did drop in at the Coffee Station, the local café, during a recent Lions Club breakfast meeting. Bush answered a few questions and shook some hands while Laura sipped coffee. Today, Ronnie (Perch) Smith, a road builder and horsebreaker, is finishing a plate of the Coffee Station's signature Bush Wings--chicken breasts stuffed with cheese and jalapeńos, wrapped in bacon and fried--which enjoy broad bipartisan support. Smith doesn't talk politics much, although...
...usher’s face. A reluctant chat was beginning. I thought I heard the older man say that “it don’t get hot back where the Negroes set” but Ezekiel persevered, and got himself a fan, then entered the sanctuary.Marshall shook his head. “Niggers and Northerners. Think the rules of The Gates apply to everyone but them.”“The Gates?” I asked.“Of Heaven.”I couldn’t ask what he meant before Daddy...
Paleoanthropologist Donald C. Johanson is the man who found the woman that shook up our family tree. In 1974, Johanson discovered a 3.2 million-year-old fossil of a female skeleton in Ethiopia that would forever change our understanding of human origins. Dubbed Australopithecus afarensis, she became known to the world as Lucy. In the years since, Johanson and his colleagues have unearthed a total of 363 specimens of Australopithecus afarensis that span 400,000 years. His new book, Lucy's legacy: The Quest for Human Origins picks up where his 1981 New York Times bestseller, Lucy: The Beginning...
...shook her head a couple times in response, apparently saying no. But almost instantly she appeared to realize that this answer would not do, not on national television and not to the President. So DeParle quickly accepted the inevitability of her situation, turning to the cameras without any notes and rapidly thanking Obama for appointing her as the nation's director of the White House Office of Health Reform, a job that will put her at the center of this year's effort to overhaul both the cost and the availability of medical care in America. "I'll just...
...Housman has played for us these past few weeks,” Amaker said. “He’s been the catalyst for our team.”Housman scattered free throws around those baskets, including a clutch pair with his team down 57-56, when he shook off a missed front end of a one-and-one situation on the previous possession to nail both ends and go back in front. He added four assists, including two on consecutive possessions in the first half when he found teammates for threes and erased a 26-21 deficit...