The story has plenty of action, in the James Fenimore Cooper manner ambushes, escapes, tense confrontations.

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Fenimore predicted that other scientists "will be all over this" with expansions of the theories.

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There's even a rock in the garden Fenimore Cooper is supposed to have stubbed his toe on during a garden party in 1842.

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This discordant medley of enthusiasm and regret would subsequently be echoed in the frontier novels of James Fenimore Cooper and the Westerns of John Ford.

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In an interview, Los Alamos' Fenimore agreed, noting that either or both approaches have the potential of vastly expanding the amount of the universe that can be measured.

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The American Bible Society was founded in 1816 at City Hall, in New York City, by such luminaries as New York Governor DeWitt Clinton and writer James Fenimore Cooper.

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At the same meeting, related findings emphasizing the same principles but coming from a slightly different approach were reported by Edward Fenimore, an astrophysicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and fellow researcher Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz.

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Judging by the crowds lining up at stands like Blue Hills Native Cuisine, where owner Bertha Mae Forbes busily fries up vast quantities of fresh snapper, the word may be spreading faster than Fenimore expects.

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