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...getting dark and cold in this part of West Virginia. But here in rehab the lights are bright and Jessica Lynch is in shorts, a baggy T shirt and sneakers from Wal-Mart that are a half size too big, to make room for the brace that keeps her left foot from dragging...
G.O.P. Congressman Eric Cantor of Virginia said the reversal proved "that the American people have a strong voice in deciding what is fair and appropriate." One problem: the American people--already equipped to exercise that voice with their remotes--hadn't seen The Reagans. Nor had its critics or defenders, since the controversial work--still being edited when it was yanked--did not yet exist. A few partisans saw leaked scripts; most based their attacks on quotes in the press...
...Southern California wildfires has hardly ended the risk to U.S. forests. Years of drought and insect epidemics have also left millions of dead and dying trees across the Southeast. An infestation of the southern pine beetle that began in 1999 has killed a million acres of pine trees from Virginia to Alabama. Those dead trees--most either still standing or cut down and left to decay--are a potential tinderbox. A wetter, more humid climate makes a California-size conflagration unlikely. Still, there are dangers...
...inhabitants as a way of keeping up. I loved our perennial truck rides through Blacksburg, where he would weave together his 77 remarkable years with anecdote and lore. He read his life story on the houses and storefronts here, in this now-bustling, once backwoods home of Virginia Tech. Some of those stories are locked in the collective memories of those who spent time with him. Others, more rarely told, are forever lost. Such is the tragedy of oral history...
There is a big difference between Harvard and what Donahue and Fitzsimmons call “mega-money” scholarship options at places like the University of Virginia and Duke, scholarships which not only forgive a student’s tuition but give out extra money as an incentive to enroll. “We’re not in the business of paying students to come here,” she says...