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The 60-Year-old Mets: They Were Awesome Before They Were Awesome

Now baseball fans can dream again. Despite all the terrible events happening around the world, fans of 30 teams have the fun of daydreaming every March: freelancers are really worth the money, franchise shooters stay healthy, the promised brilliance of the latest “phenomenon” (to speak to Casey Stengel’s vocabulary). There was once a spring when …

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Awesome Florida Environmentalist Maggy Hurchalla dies at 81

The most public environmental fight began in 2013 when Lake Point Restoration, a company with a limestone mining operation in Martin County, sued for contract interference. He had sent emails urging county commissioners to withdraw from a deal with Lake Point that he feared would destroy wetlands and cause further damage. In court, Ms. Hurchalla …

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‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Review: What’s the Anagram for ‘Awesome’?

The sweetest love scene in a New York scene currently features neither Left Bank bohemians, Orpheus and Eurydice, nor that masked freak. Rather, it’s between a tuba-playing, Elvish-speaking high school über-nerd and a girl who looks like her grandmother. Cause girl was born to Kimberly Levaco a genetic aging disorder similar to progeriaDespite turning 16, …

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