Volume XVII, Issue 18 # April 30 - May 6, 2009 |
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Home-GrownFrom Washington to Annapolis to your own backyard, kitchen gardens are sprouting everywhereGrowing your own is back in vogue. First Lady Michelle Obama made digging in the dirt fashionable when, in March, she broke ground for a White House kitchen garden. The last time an American first family grew their own was back in 1943, when Eleanor Roosevelt planted a World War II victory garden. Read entire story |
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April is National Poetry Month. As if the other 11 months, poets were not writing and sharing poems. Look, and not too hard, and you’ll find them writing poems, re-working them in ad hoc workshops, publishing in small journals and on the Internet, reading poems to each other and to ever-greater audiences in delis, taverns, libraries, schools and gardens. Your neighbor, even you, may be among them. |
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The Volvo Ocean Race, Leg 6Steaming nearly 5,000 miles from Rio de Janeiro to BostonThis was turning into an amazing race, as only 14 miles separated second from sixth place. With 3,500 miles to go, the northeasterly trade winds were kicking in at nearly 20 knots, allowing Telefonica Blue to extend her lead day by day. She was getting the fresh wind ahead of the trailing boats, which had formed two trailing flanks from west to east. Read entire story |
Guys You Can TrustThey don’t have tidy workbenches or neat tackle boxesWhere’s the fun if you know exactly where everything is? That’s like hunting at the zoo. |
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