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...above all odds. In what the guide calls “most wonderful fight know to history,” it describes how “untrained farmers” fought against “drilled troops,” and “drove the soldiers like frightened sheep.” This classic literary theme of the underdog has entertainment value and resonates with town pride, but it is a highly colored reading of the events of April...
...pageants and popular history. These 77 “untrained farmers” were mostly veterans of the French and Indian Wars, with additional target practice from hunting, and preparation as part of the town’s training band. Instead of driving the British away like sheep, the Lexingtonians sustained heavy losses, killed only two British soldiers, and did not prevent the British from marching onward to Concord...
...work has also inspired six movies--the first, Blade Runner (from his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), released just after his death. Total Recall (from the story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale") followed in 1990, then the French Barjo (from Confessions of a Crap Artist) and Screamers (from "Second Variety"). This year, two more: the O.K. Impostor and now Minority Report...
...town over clearance and logging rights to 8,000 hectares of land. The state government lists some 360 territorial disputes in Oaxaca, with the Xochiltepec conflict one of the 30 most combustible. MEANWHILE.. Kangaroo Cocktail Scientists in Australia believe kangaroos could help stop global warming. Methane emitted by sheep and cattle accounts for about 15% of Australia's greenhouse gas. But kangaroos on a similar diet produce no methane at all, thanks to a cocktail of mysterious stomach bacteria...
...basketball hoop in our driveway that went unused after a year of initial excitement, and my brilliant, studious sister preferred the newspaper or a Jane Austen novel to a game of basketball or tennis. Both siblings ultimately turned out swell—I, in fact, became the black sheep of the family after they both graduated from med school. But while academics were our “thing,” sports were clearly...