The stadium shell game
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The current practice in most states to use public funds to finance construction of state stadiums is now the focus of public debates. There are observations that it benefits only owners of basketball and baseball franchises.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0375
Year: 1997
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To touch a shell
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A blind evolutionary biologist and paleontologist recalls his boyhood curiosity of sea shells and its influence on his choice of career. He read in Braille and studied shells by touching them with his fingertips.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0375
Year: 1996
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A mother's touch
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Romano relates how her mother's bag lunch saved him from getting a traffic ticket. He remembers that this incident happened when he was still a truck driver in Manhattan, New York, NY.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0375
Year: 1999
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