Dead at 50. Mike Webster! Nine-time Pro Bowler. Hall of Famer. ‘Iron Mike,’ legendary Steelers center for fifteen seasons. Jeanne Marie Laskas Read Quote
The Gun Control Act of 1968 was an attempt to impose order. It set up the Federal Firearms License (FFL) system; gun stores would have to become licensed, and they would have to follow certain rules. Felons, illegal immigrants, and crazy people would be prohibited from buying guns. Jeanne Marie Laskas Read Quote
A face isn’t an organ, like a liver or a heart. A face is muscles, nerves, bones, and skin. A face is more like a hand or a foot. Jeanne Marie Laskas Read Quote
When people spot Fallon in public, they do not shriek or drool or go wobbly in the knees. It’s a different look entirely. A tilt of the head, mouth agape, eyebrows rolled like you do when you see a puppy. Jeanne Marie Laskas Read Quote
A person can’t just drive around the North Slope, visit the locals, stop in at a burger joint. There are no locals, no burger joints, no houses, no cities, no churches. Jeanne Marie Laskas Read Quote
As a closeted gay man, Jim McGreevey lived a life of presentation, a gay man portraying a straight man. Jeanne Marie Laskas Read Quote
For centuries, native Eskimos cut blocks of oil-soaked tundra from natural seeps to use as fuel. In the 1920s, explorers arrived and began poking holes. In 1968, they discovered Prudhoe Bay State No. 1, the largest oil field in North America and one of the largest in the world, and a year later the adjacent Kuparuk field, the second-largest. Jeanne Marie Laskas Read Quote
Maine is the largest producer of wild blueberries in the world. The woody plants occur naturally in the sandy gravel understory of Maine’s coastal forests, where little else bothers even trying to grow. Jeanne Marie Laskas Read Quote
The ‘modern’ air-traffic-control system, and the FAA itself, was created in the aftermath of one of the most dramatic commercial midair bashes, way back in 1956. Jeanne Marie Laskas Read Quote
Every vice president since Mondale has lived up on this hill, on the twelve-acre campus of the Naval Observatory in Northwest Washington. It’s a pretty house with a wraparound porch and a white turret. Jeanne Marie Laskas Read Quote
