For the uninitiated — which is nearly everyone outside the counties of Ireland — hurling is an Irish sport that shares elements of lacrosse and field hockey.

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Springfield’s only aerobatic pilot-cum-attorney does his adventuring, like much of his lawyering, alone.

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In the ring, Larry Permuter isn’t a judge and he isn’t 63 years old and his wife isn’t sick. In the ring, Permuter is just a student of the sweet science who’s learning some hard lessons.

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It makes sense that Robert Sears, a sole practitioner who specializes in contracts and disputes related to architecture and design, would get a buzz from his hobby. Sears, president of the Eastern Missouri Beekeepers Association, is fascinated by bees' social hierarchy, the intricacies of the hives they build and the purposeful role they play in the ecosystem and in producing food for people. "The satisfaction of beekeeping is being in touch with the flowering cycle and the seasonal life cycle," said Sears, who maintains bee colonies in St. Louis and at a vacation home in the Ozarks. "What beekeeping does is heighten the beekeeper's awareness of the natural environment."

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Under the stage lights, Courtney LaBelle’s lipstick gleams bright red. Clad in sequins and fishnet stockings, she spins and slinks across the stage as Lola, the sultry sidekick to the Devil himself. As a contract lawyer for a downtown St. ...

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