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• Ripperda had dreams of becoming a professional chef. His aunt, Beverly Lesicko, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch he joined the Marines for a chance to explore the world. He was scheduled to come home in May.
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• BracketRacket: Still wrestling with your picks? You've got plenty of high-priced company
• Welcome to BracketRacket, your one-stop shopping place for all things NCAA.
• Today, LeBron James struggles with "The Decision" (Again? Seriously?), Fox anchor Neil Cavuto tries to order takeout food off a bracket sheet, men debate "hotness," best-selling crime novelist Robert Crais plots a happy ending for the NCAAs (clue: Duke wins! Duke wins!), and one very sad Kentucky fan refuses to take off his hat.
• Oh, and the real tournament begins.
• But first, let's crank up the time machine.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Thursday, March 21, the 80th day of 2013. There are 285 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On March 21, 1963, the Alcatraz federal prison island in San Francisco Bay was emptied of its last inmates and closed at the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
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• On this date:
• In 1556, Thomas Cranmer, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, was burned at the stake for heresy.
• In 1685, composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany.
• In 1804, the French civil code, or the "Code Napoleon" as it was later called, was adopted.
• In 1871, journalist Henry M. Stanley began his famous expedition in Africa to locate the missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone.
• In 1907, U.S. Marines arrived in Honduras to protect American lives and interests (Continued on page 35)
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