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...rehabbing at home, he re-established contact with Crowton, who had gotten a job as the offensive coordinator at LSU. After rehab and a tryout, Hatch became a scholarship quarterback at one of the nation’s premier football schools. When 2007 starter Matt Flynn graduated and presumed successor Ryan Perilloux was kicked off the team for disciplinary issues, it was suddenly Hatch’s job to lose.“I’ve definitely felt grateful for the opportunity,” Hatch says. “It’s definitely been really exciting...
...Gist: By exploring the mysterious phenomenon of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) that is wiping out honey bees worldwide, Jacobsen lays out a case for why we need to care - and it has very little to do with honey. A spiritual successor to Rachel Carson's seminal eco-polemic Silent Spring, Fruitless Fall walks us through the various theories put forth as causes of CCD -genetically-modified crops, global warming, God's wrath, cellular phones, loss of habitat and a nicotine-like pesticide to name a few. Jacobsen concludes that a return to simpler times - for example, before honey bees were...
...fervid, red-faced debate that sometimes came close to tears and blows - but those exchanges were consigned to hotel bars and fringe meetings. All arguments centered on a single issue: Can Prime Minister Gordon Brown win over increasingly fractious critics? Should Labour dump him in the hopes that a successor would rescue the party from its historic depths of unpopularity? Or would such an ouster unleash infighting that would shred what it was meant to save...
...have suffered a debilitating stroke (which North Korean officials deny), Pyongyang confirmed on Sept. 19 - again, without Kim present -that it was preparing to restart its nuclear reactor. With North Korea a fragile state whose population hovers constantly on the brink of famine and with no clear successor to Kim in place, the only thing more frightening than a rogue nation with him at the helm could be one without...
...subdued television address on Sunday night, ousted South African President Thabo Mbeki announced that he had submitted his letter of resignation to the speaker of parliament and will officially leave office once parliament chooses an interim successor, as it is expected to do within a month. Mbeki appeared calm and dignified as he defended his legacy of 14 years as the premier policy architect of a post-apartheid South African state, first as deputy president under Nelson Mandela from 1994 to 1999, then as head of state. But despite his demeanor, it was a bitter moment...