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MARY BROWNBACK, wife of Republican presidential hopeful Sam Brownback, on the couple's plans to spend five days at their family home in Colorado. Brownback is the only candidate taking substantial time off from the campaign trail this summer...
...they probably did. To be sure, quite soon after Diana's death, a school of thought argued that the raw hugs-and-tears emotionalism of her funeral was an embarrassing aberration, a fake sentiment tricked up by the mass media, keen for a good end-of-summer story. But that's not a line that convinces. The memories are too real for that, the significance of them too apparent...
Monica Mathieu, 17, spent a recent summer day inside an Olney High School rec room painting a panel for an upcoming mural. She'd ordinarily be sitting at home watching TV, Mathieu said, but on this day she was giddy about the pending arrival of a group of Irish students who have been collaborating with the Philadelphia teens on a mural called Common Ground. As Mathieu talked about raising money for a trip to Dublin to work on a project next summer, she was asked how two such seemingly disparate groups overcame the challenges in creating such...
Much of the Midwest is reeling from days of persistent rain and flooding. But there's at least one silver lining - or, perhaps, a golden one: For many on the storm's fringes, even a slight dose of rain is offering relief from the summer's drought...
...much of the summer, Art Bunting says "it was getting dry" near his corn and soybean farm in Dwight, Ill., about 80 miles southeast of Chicago. Between the drought and rising demand for corn to produce ethanol, "some people were worried we weren't going to grow enough corn," he says. Now, however, it's a different story. During next month's harvest, Bunting says he expects a higher yield of corn - partly because he increased the amount of acres he's devoted to the crop, but also because the recent "good weather" has helped kernels of corn get plumper...