But he said neighbors have described a history of public arguments among Thomas and her children, and Jaxs Johnson was arrested after a pair of fights with his mother in April.

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"I don't care whether I get (a well) or not, " says 69-year-old Johnson County farmer Thomas Trover, who leased more than 1, 300 acres to a Kansas oil company.

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The movement started around the time of the 1992 riots that followed the Rodney King verdict, when a previously wayward young man named Thomas Johnson reinvented himself as Tommy the Clown and established an institution called Tommy's Hip Hop Clown Academy.

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Magic Johnson and Larry Bird and Isiah Thomas were each reviled by at least a few teammates for their brutal verbal takedowns of lesser players --and almost everyone in their respective locker rooms were lesser players.

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Geneticist Thomas Johnson, now at the University of Colorado, showed that altering a single gene, called age-1, doubled the worms' term of life to one month.

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Johnson had been convicted of first-degree murder in the slaying of Thomas Smith, who died during a robbery of his gun shop.

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