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...Fenway Park tour guide spouting trivia and anecdotes about the U.S.’s oldest ballpark for hundreds of visitors a day, I am feeding my inner fan’s appetite for insider access. Many fans listening to the park’s history are amazed at my luck: I get paid to hang around the very ballpark where the Red Sox have been pitching, homering, and base stealing their way into baseball history and mythology since...
...wide (7.3 m) cage makes some people queasy, the girls are now trying to cash in on the MMA wave. "We're not hitting tennis balls. We're hitting people," says Gina Carano, a fighter in the upstart, male-dominated EliteXC circuit who draws more traffic to the tour's website than any male fighter does. "Isn't that more exciting...
...powerful way to mention that the universal health care he proposes has a guaranteed dental benefit. Edwards talked about him because Lowe is the kind of person he knew growing up in the Carolinas, and his story made a powerful connection. This was the day the Edwards poverty tour rolled into John Edwards's own part of the country, and surrounded by working people the candidate caught fire on their behalf. "James told us how grateful he was to be able to talk - something he has spent almost all his life not being able to do," Edwards said in Prestonburg...
Lowe seemed to be tolerating rather than enjoying all the attention, and he looked a bit startled when Edwards, kicking off the third and final day of his eight-state poverty tour, seized on his story and got angry on his behalf. "We have to do something about this! This is not okay!" the candidate said. "How can we allow this to happen, that James had to live 50 years without treatment? Are you listening? This is America's problem. And let me tell you, as long as I am alive and breathing I'm going to do something about...
Edwards' populism was heating up - and threatening to boil over. Though he had sometimes seemed distracted on this tour, as if holding something back during so many sessions with so many needy people, his passion had been building since the night before in Pittsburgh, as he weaved stories from the past two days into his remarks and brought into sharp focus the themes of his poverty tour: That it is wrong for millions of Americans to have no medical care. That it is wrong for millions of Americans to work full time yet live in poverty. And on Wednesday...