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BASEBALL IS A FAMILY

Food and Community ? A Wasteland Paradise ? Gastropod Invaders

SPRING 2005 VOLUME 4, NUMBER 2

Washington tate magazine

CONTENTS

features

20 Baseball Is a Family

by Linda Kittell We hear about his time with the Padres; about teammates Dave Winfield, Willie McCovey, and Tito Fuentes; how he'd faced Hank Aaron and Johnny Bench and Pete Rose and Joe Morgan; and how a tear of his rotator cuff had brought an end to his major league career.

24 The Tie That Binds

by Tim Steury No matter what you want to blame--predatory pricing, vertical integration, foreign competition, globalization, urban sprawl--the fact of the matter is, rural America is packing it in. At least the rural America of our memory or imagination.

HEALING COMMUNITIES: MASTER GARDENERS IN WASHINGTON

30 Where Water Meets Desert

by Eric Apalategui ? photos by Bill Wagner Among locals, you occasionally hear the word "wasteland" used to describe sagebrush-studded lands that biologists prefer to call native shrub steppe. It's impossible to take such a harsh view when Robert Kent is your guide to the Columbia Basin Wildlife Areas.

OTHELLO SANDHILL CRANE FESTIVAL

field notes: New Zealand

37 New Zealand Mud Snails

story and photos by Alison Emblidge Fromme They have already invaded the Snake River, Yellowstone National Park, and lots of other sites. They can reach population densities greater than 300,000 per square meter, carpeting stream beds and changing the way nutrients cycle through the ecosystem. It was a little difficult, though, to explain all of this to the gentleman who wanted to confiscate my snails.

Cover: Former San Diego Padres pitcher Joe McIntosh '73 and his daughter Molly. See story, page 20. Photograph by Robert Hubner.

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4 Letters 6 No blank slates 7 A once-in-a-career project 8 Pumpkin physics

9 Getting a feel for archaeology 10 Conference brings Plateau tribes and WSU

a few steps closer

12 A nuclear icon

The end of an era

13 Tough microbes 14 Jennifer Lynn: Barreling out of the chute 15 Student engineers learn by doing 16 SEASONS/SPORTS: Meeting the challenge

tracking the cougars

43 CLASS NOTES ? IN MEMORIAM

BILL WAGNER GEORGE BEDIRIAN

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SHORTS Channel swimmer Thomas hits paydirt Those wasted five gallons Alumni achievements The Best of All Worlds Woodley collects, preserves flies Cougar fraternity Erik Falter connects alumni Just buy it! Anna Grant--a life of firsts

52 books, etc.

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