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...legendary Carbine carried 65.5-kg to win in 1890). But that hardly mattered to the whooping crowd, who reached toward the victor's gleaming flanks as she came past. "Have you ever seen a horse like her?" shouted jubilant young men in suits for hours afterwards, while other punters, sun-dazed and champagne-happy, toasted her and chanted her name...
...culture preservation, she collected tribal correspondence as well as old birth and marriage records that documented the tribe's history long after its reservation had disbanded. Her efforts helped boost the dwindling Mohegans into a federally recognized, 1,700-member tribe that now runs the successful Connecticut casino Mohegan Sun...
...Meet The New Planets" discussed some of the recently discovered planetlike objects that are orbiting our sun [Oct. 24] and the difficulty astronomers are having in deciding what is a planet. How about defining a planet as an object that is massive enough to be squeezed into a spherical shape by gravity, does not orbit another such object and orbits the sun in the same plane as the eight objects that we considered planets before 1930? Then Pluto and others with tilted orbits could be called planetoids. There, that was easy...
...years schoolteachers have used a version of the mnemonic phrase "My Very Eager Mother Just Sent Us New Pajamas" to help kids learn the names of the nine planets in order of distance from the sun [Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto]. Now if Pluto loses its planetary status, I suppose we can get used to "My Very Eager Mother Just Sent Us Nothing." Things just won't be the same, though, without those pajamas...
...from here on out to secure a BCS appearance, and the road gets significantly easier after the meeting with Tennessee.Notre Dame will be geared up in front of the home crowd and should win this one going away.Final Score: Notre Dame 31, Tennessee 10Arizona State (-2.5) at Washington StateThe Sun Devils are badly underrated at this point. This is a team that had USC on the ropes, had LSU within a down of victory, and crushed a pretty good Northwestern squad.Arizona State went into a tailspin after the USC loss, dropping three straight. But the Sun Devils are much better...