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...land is lunar-like now," says Ian Brunt, who's on 120 hectares near the New South Wales town of Finley and has been rice farming for 32 years. "The tractor's throwing up clouds of dust." Les Gordon recalls the disenchantment among farmers in 1982 when state authorities limited farmers to 60% of their normal water allowance. Now, "I would kill for a 60% allocation," says Gordon, who still farms with his father, Henry. "Dad planted his first rice crop in 1949. No one around here has seen conditions like this before...
...accident that took his life on Monday. According to Cambridge Police Department spokesman Frank T. Pasquarello, Meyers was crossing the street at the corner of Mass. Ave. and River Street at around 6:45 a.m. when he was struck by the rear tire of a Shaw’s tractor trailer, which dragged him 160 feet. Pasquarello said the driver of the truck was “very distraught” after the incident. As of Tuesday, no charges had been pressed against Shaw’s. The grocery store chain, which has several Cambridge locations, did not return requests...
Isaac J. Meyers, a Harvard teaching fellow, died yesterday after he was hit by a Shaw’s tractor trailer before sunrise at the intersection of Mass. Ave and Prospect...
...Harvard teaching fellow was killed early this morning when he was hit by a tractor trailer at the intersection of Mass. Ave and Prospect St., according to the Boston Globe...
...dramatic, tidal wave of a movement for change. In fairness, Obama did raise his game in recent weeks. His pitch was more down-to-earth, substantive and specific in Texas and Ohio. But his TV cool requires a certain distance, and distance easily slides into remoteness. Sitting on a tractor in Texas on March 4, he didn't look as out of place as Michael Dukakis in a tank - but he did seem like a tourist getting his picture taken with a longhorn cow, a visitor to the hinterland. He badly needs to get down, get gritty, sweat a little...