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...that want to buy their land from distant landlords. In 2002 the tiny isle of Gigha, off the west coast, was purchased by its residents. All but two local houses were near uninhabitable. Now the houses have been renovated, and 25 new jobs have been created, along with a wind farm. "It was like a big cloud lifting from the island," says Willie McSporran, who led the buyout. "One farmer told me: 'I went whistling and smiling to pay my rent, knowing that it wasn't going into the pocket of a laird.'" Last year Assynt's residents followed suit...
...were still camped out on the decimated strand, with little more than a tarp and a few bottles of water, desperate for a ride north out of Pass Christian or a working phone to tell relatives they were alive, if not exactly well. "The house was rocking in the wind. I looked out the attic window, and water was approaching fast. I thought we were done...
...gives things to you. You have to align yourself not just with the gun and the target but with your surroundings: light must be taken into account (people tend to aim lower in dim light), temperature (on a hot day the bullet flies faster and higher), and wind. "Three minutes," says Ian, an Army weapons instructor turned lawyer. He means that to counter today's stiff easterly, he'll move his horizontal sight three-60ths of a degree to the left. Shooting is all about precision, he says. And consistency. And tenacity, says David, an engineer...
...Walsh said. “All of a sudden, we’re down.”The Tigers tacked on three more in the third on a RBI single by Salini and a two-run homer by Iacono that, as with Wendkos’, got into the wind and carried out in left field. “I thought Haviland pitched well and I thought Cole pitched well,” Walsh said. “They didn’t pitch outstanding.” Harvard, in the midst of a subpar performance from its stopper, remained resilient...
...note at the beginning of the original edition of “Inherit the Wind,” which premiered in 1955, states explicitly that the Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee’s play is not history. Sure, names were changed, characters had been added, and I had to admit that Clarence Darrow, whom I had idolized, was probably not nearly as dashing as Spencer Tracy, but the plot itself stayed relatively true to the infamous 1925 Scopes Trial over the teaching of evolution—leading me to believe that the evolution debate was what the play...