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Daylight Savings gives duck hunters an extra hour to savor

Angus Phillips Special to The Washington Post

Last updated Monday, October 19, 2009 - 5:58pm

WINCHESTER, Va. -- The worst thing about duck hunting is the hours. You're almost always late. Ducks fly at dawn, and you'd better have your decoys arrayed and be tucked into your hiding place before the first gray light streaks the horizon in the east.

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The America's Cup has been mugged

Angus Phillips Special to The Washington Post

Last updated Sunday, August 2, 2009 - 7:35pm

Team New Zealand won the America's Cup from Dennis Conner in San Diego in 1995. After a victory tour, the Kiwis put the Auld Mug, the oldest trophy in modern sport, on display at the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron in Auckland.
In March 1997, a protester of Maori heritage slipped into the trophy room with a sledgehammer hidden on his person and bashed the silver ewer to a pretzeled hulk when no one was looking. The yachting world was aghast.
The mug was swiftly resurrected by craftsmen in England, where it had been built in 1848. It was reinstated at the RNZYS and put back on display (in a guarded, bulletproof case) until 2003, when a boyish Swiss billionaire named Ernesto Bertarelli won and took it off to Europe.

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