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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

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.” You can read just that chapter and the final chapter summarizing this achievement and learn a lot, but it really isn’t the whole story, not the one Greeley wants to present. A great-great nephew of Senator McLean, Greeley spent three years researching and writing this book.

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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

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They also warn that the product should not be directly applied to “water or to areas where surface water is present or to intertidal areas below the mean high water mark,” and that “runoff also may be hazardous to aquatic organism in water adjacent to treated areas.”

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Trinity Brewing: Le Capitaine Golden Saison Regal

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Even the brewery’s spent grains, once shoveled out of the mash tun, are hauled off to a local farm as livestock feed. Atlanta, Georgia’s Red Brick Brewing Company has teamed up with the Georgia Aquarium to release a series of seasonal beers , with a portion of sales to be donated to conservation and research efforts.

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On "Knockout Animals"

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Today's New York Times gives us Adam Shriver's Op-Ed " Not Grass-Fed, But at Least Pain-Free ," which presents its dilemma at the end: If we cannot avoid factory farms altogether, the least we can do is eliminate the unpleasantness of pain in the animals that must live and die on them. It would be far better than doing nothing at all.