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...been avoiding comment on the stuffed-gopher museum in Torrington, Alberta. At first I tried to cover up my silence with a little bluster. "When presidential candidates start talking about the long-term effects of unchecked entitlement programs," I said to my wife, "I'll start talking about the stuffed-gopher museum in Torrington, Alberta...
Then Dole went to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, leaving himself open to unlimited Lawrence Welk jokes and leaving me with little excuse for failing to deal with the stuffed-gopher museum in Torrington, Alberta...
...been stalling since early June, when Torrington, a tiny community with access to a bit of tourist-development money from the province, opened the Gopher Hole Museum. Extrapolating from the area's limited renown for an overabundance of gophers, whose destructive burrowing has always brought armed retaliation from local farmers, the museum used stuffed gophers to portray daily life in Torrington. "In 31 displays," according to the Associated Press, "54 gophers play hockey and Little League baseball, get a hairdo, preach a sermon, shoot pool in the local tavern...even rob a bank, with the teller told, 'Put your paws...
REPUBLICAN CONGRESSWOMAN NANCY Johnson returned to her Connecticut district last week to sell Newt Gingrich's revolution. But what she discovered is that Gingrich himself was the issue. In Torrington, a handful of activists interrupted her meeting on Medicare to protest what they called the "cover-up'' of alleged misdeeds by the Speaker of the House. Johnson, a respected moderate who chairs the House Ethics Committee, has been hearing that message a lot lately. Editorials with headlines like NO WHITEWASH, MRS. JOHNSON and ETHICS PANEL fails its duty have appeared all across the state...
...University of Alberta had dug out from Arctic permafrost. Buried in 1846, the corpses are in flawless condition, down to the 19th century outfits and funeral head wrappings. The hands of one of the corpses, says Beattie, are long and delicate, like a pianist's. Petty Officer John Torrington, 20, left, Able Seaman John Hartnell, 25, and Royal Marine William Braine, 34, died after the two ships of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition in search of the Northwest Passage were trapped by thick ice near Canada's remote Beechey Island. Over the next year...