Word: virginia
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Fact check. On the road, Pat Robertson tells the story of children at a Virginia public school who were forbidden to bring Christmas cookies to class because their liberal teachers said that would violate the Constitution. This is one of a host of secular humanist horror stories Robertson loves to tell, with little or no substantiation. When asked for details, Robertson dismisses those seeking to check the facts as being "too literal...
...Columbia's westward-creeping suburbs. But the two men standing out front next to a pickup truck, wearing overalls and visored caps, are obviously locals. "My brother got me a statue here last week. He thought I'd like it," says one, the soft twang of his western Virginia accent confirming the visual evidence. "I don't. Can I trade it in on something else?" Harper, a stocky man of medium height, thinks a moment, then replies, "I don't see why not. What kind of statue was that, anyway?" "Some kind of mannequin" is the reply...
...needed to prove their electoral clout or show strength in a certain region could enter a few well-chosen primaries; those with established reputations generally would ignore them. The real decisions were made by back-room coalitions assembled at the convention. John Kennedy, for example, entered the West Virginia primary to prove he could win in an ardently Protestant state, then made his peace with the big-city bosses like Chicago's Richard Daley. Such an arrangement often froze out fresh faces and neglected dissenting minorities in the party. But it vetted candidates with a hard eye for their chances...
Iowans have a solidity and a temperance that make the state seem like an outpost of Lake Wobegon. The Hawkeye State first embraced Prohibition in 1882, and the lemonade legacy remains: Iowans drink less liquor per capita than the residents of any state save West Virginia, where illegal moonshine is not counted in the standings. Des Moines is the Jell-O-eating capital of the nation. Cakes are still made from scratch: consumers buy ingredients like baking chocolate at roughly double the national norm...
Preventive veterinary medicine is burgeoning. Animal doctors now routinely use X rays and other imaging techniques to detect nearly invisible hairline cracks in horses' legs before fractures occur. For tendon and ligament injuries, says University of Pennsylvania Veterinarian Virginia Reef, "diagnostic ultrasound has been a big boon in racing and horse-show circles." Racing has become such big business that young horses increasingly compete regularly when they are only two years old, before their bodies are fully mature. Equine Specialist Howard Seeherman of Tufts uses the treadmill % to condition yearlings in order to reduce injuries and improve performance. Says...