Published Jun 10, 2012 at 05:00AM / Updated Nov 19, 2013 at 12:31AM
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12/02/2007
LEAVENWORTH, Wash. — I spent last weekend in a Bavarian village, and I only had to drive six hours to get there. In the shadow of towering peaks glazed with early-season snow, I ate schnitzel and schweinshax’n, raised a stein to accordions and alphorns, shopped for lederhosen and nutcrackers, and took my morning coffee mit apfelstrudel. No, it wasn’t Garmisch nor Oberammergau, but here at…
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Twenty-two pounds, 4 ounces. A largemouth bass gets that big only when there is an alignment of factors, a convergence of genetics, water level, food supply, temperature and fishing pressure. And catching it requires a fisherman with the skill, the time, and the luck to be at the right place at the right time. On June 2, 1932, three years into the Great Depression, a…
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ALLEN PARK, Mich. — As he sits in class at Eastern Michigan University, a flood of images streams from Tony Saylor’s vibrant, creative mind down through his pen and onto paper. Often, his doodling features the 9-year-old character Viper Girl who battles monsters with her pet fox Logan. Saylor, 22, has even self-published three books of their adventures. Saylor’s professors didn’t exactly welcome his constant…
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The holiest plant of the Christmas season may be a raggedy shrub with peeling bark that seems to grow best in a dusty backyard in Tempe, Ariz. This is Boswellia sacra, better known as the frankincense tree. The shrub’s gum resin is one of the three biblical gifts that the wise men bestowed on the infant Jesus. Until recently, Americans who wished to cultivate their…
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February 7, 1950 - July 18, 2010In the presence of his loving family, Eric Wilson Moen passed away Sunday, July 18, 2010, at his home in Bend, Oregon after a stoic and courageous battle with cancer. He was 60 years old. Eric was bornFebruary 7, 1950 in Bend, Oregon, to Emil and Beatrice Moen. In 1969, after attending schools in Bend, he left to serve…
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