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Raising the Ante in Connecticut

By ANDY NEWMAN
IN the beginning was the trailer. It was white with eggshell-blue trim, donated in 1976 by the State of Connecticut, along with some castoff office furniture, to the Pequot Indians, an impoverished, nearly defunct tribe. The trailer served as headquarters for the tribe’s first attempts at economic development projects, which included raising swine […]

Posted on April 18th, 2008 by admin
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Florida’s Flows of Clear, Cool Water

By CHRISTOPHER PERCY COLLIER : IT’S a warm late-winter afternoon in northern Florida, and three young women are gingerly descending a half-dozen wooden stairs to a mouthwash-blue pool of translucent water ringed with cypress trees. Yesterday, they paddled the Ichetucknee River, a clear, narrow stream fed almost exclusively by nine major springs. Today, at this […]

Posted on April 11th, 2008 by admin
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