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Founded in 1810 and settled by Quakers who left Virginia and the Carolinas because they opposed slavery, Wilmington remains a farming town, not a tourist mecca or fashionably quaint bedroom community. Corn has always been king here--an hour southwest of Columbus, an hour northeast of Cincinnati, 45 minutes southeast of Dayton--but now the overnight-shipping giant Airborne Express shares the crown. In 1980 Airborne turned a decommissioned Air Force base on the outskirts of town into its national hub, and the sleepy town's fortunes were changed. Before Airborne, the unemployment rate was 9.8%; two-thirds of Wilmington...
...Ellen Mayeron, manager of the waterfront Mucky Duck restaurant on Captiva Island, off southwest Florida's Gulf Coast, on yesterday's end of the official hurricane season. Because of less windy conditions over the Atlantic, just three hurricanes blew in this season, compared with the annual average...
...second swat at an obsession that has buzzed around the author's head for a decade or more. Killing Mister Watson, published in 1990, was Matthiessen's impressive, exasperating novel about the shooting, in 1910, of a man named E. J. Watson, by a mob of angry townsmen in southwest Florida. Was Watson a hardworking planter and family man who paid his bills and helped his neighbors, or a bar brawler and casual gunman who killed his hired hands rather than pay them at the end of the cane-cutting season? Or was he both...
...morning, forty years ago, a cleaning lady vacuuming alone in Wadsworth House saw a grim character in a Tricorn hat and cloak silently come down the stairs and go out the door; another report describes the sounds of a phantom dinner party that filled the corridor by the southwest corner of University Hall, a displaced echo of the dining hall that occupied the building in the 19th century; and some remember hearing Bill Gannon, former sexton of Christ Church, claim that a British soldier who was thrown from a wagon while passing in front of the church occassionally rises from...
...chairs, our beds," said a young man in a juice shop. "Now my family is sleeping on the floor." Nowhere is the agony more visible than in the hospitals, where doctors complain about shortages of basic drugs and syringes. At a children's hospital outside the city of Karbala, southwest of Baghdad, the sweltering, fly-infested wards are jammed with youngsters suffering from diarrhea and dehydration. "I've already lost two children, and now I am about to lose another one," said a young mother with tears rolling down her cheeks. A driver in Baghdad told a similar story about...