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...Cold River in southwest New Hampshire lies a wooded town of slow streams and defunct mills, a relic of distant New England days.It’s called Alstead, population 1,944. On one late summer day in 2005, Robert Brown, a former Dartmouth football star, was hard at work building a new barn on his family’s rural property.His son, Morgan, the Harvard baseball player, busied himself hammering nails. Hopped up on iron supplements—to get the blood count up, of course—Morgan, Alstead’s favorite son, was vulnerable, restless...
...Through an aide, Dr. Smith declined to be interviewed, and he has made few public statements. According to a limited biography provided by the Navy, he graduated from Southwest Medical School of University of Texas in 1971. A Navy captain of his experience would typically make about $144,000 a year, a Pentagon official said. In 1999 congressional testimony on funding for substance-abuse treatment, Smith revealed that he is an addiction specialist. "It has been my honor, pleasure and pain to work in the field of addiction medicine and treat alcoholics and addicts for 27 years," he said...
...Really Discovered America?The conventional answer to that question dates to the early 1930s, when stone projectile points that were nearly identical began to turn up at sites across the American Southwest. They suggested a single cultural tradition that was christened Clovis, after an 11,000-year-old-plus site near Clovis, N.M. And because no older sites were known to exist in the Americas, scientists assumed that the Clovis people were the first to arrive. They came, according to the theory, no more than 12,000 years B.P. (before the present), walking across the dry land that connected modern...
...book has come under criticism this week for being taken out of context or being factually incorrect. For example, Larry Estrada, associate professor of ethnic studies at Western Washington University, is profiled as supporting the creation of an independent Hispanic state in America’s Southwest to be called “Atzlan.” In a statement, Estrada said, “I think this attack is libelous. They never contacted me or talked to me about my viewpoints. I’ve never advocated secession.”But Horowitz said that he has students?...
However, this same flexibility does not apply to school districts that are a part of the Rural Low Income Schools program, which include poorer rural regions predominantly made up of minorities in the Southeast and Southwest, the study said...