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Like most rural states, Wyoming does not have a lot of money from property taxes to outfit its police, fire and emergency-services personnel. On top of that, the legislature has never been too generous. Until recently, it wasn't unusual for a fire station to hold a bake sale to raise money. Last summer, after a vintage World War II--era German bomber crashed into a building in Cheyenne, fire, ambulance and airport personnel could not talk to one another over their radios because they use different equipment. "We eventually ended up sending runners--like the Greeks," says Brian...
What do they cook? They bake, cook eggs, noodle dishes, mixed drinks...
...snobbery. Lee, who was forced to cook for her four younger siblings at the age of 9 because their mother was seriously ill, has since used trial and error to make quick fixes taste better. She'll add cream cheese, sugar and flour to store-bought slice-and-bake cookies to make them tastier--while making life easier so that "even Mom, when she doesn't have time because she's working her little tushy off, can roll it out with the kids and enjoy the fun part." At a time when we are judged more by the love...
...elected office, plenty are still loyally trailing along after their politico husbands, chatting up voters and practicing their Nancy Reagan smiles--even if they have to do it after putting in 40 or 50 hours a week at their day jobs. Hillary Clinton said she was not going to bake cookies or be Tammy Wynette standing by her man, and then did the biggest Wynette in political history (although the last chapter of that story has not yet been written...
...They're certainly having fun with the stuff. Paige, 9, plays a helicopter-flying game on the Icebox while Stuart, 11, stands nearby, using the tablet's browser to start his science homework. Later their mother takes over the Icebox to print Allrecipes.com's instructions for Beef-and-Noodle Bake (using an HP ink-jet, another loaner, that sits where a toaster oven might once have been). All that connectivity helps keep the family together in one place (though Dory still runs downstairs out of habit to check her e-mail). But those tasks could be tackled from an ordinary...