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SITTING ON A BALE OF BARLEY destined for his cattle, Dick Carver gets just a little misty eyed as he recalls the moment that propelled him to leadership of a rebellion now sweeping the West. Usually mild mannered and affable, the Nevada rancher and Nye County commissioner reached a point last year when he had had enough. To him, federal intrusion into the daily life of his county had simply grown too great, so on July 4, 1994--Independence Day--he took the law into his own hands. His weapon of choice: a rusting, yellow D-7 Caterpillar bulldozer...
...flights." "The wives were being allowed to sit in both pilots' seats, and one apparently maneuvered the controls, sending the aircraft out of control," Diehl says. From an altitude of 29,000 feet, the plane spiraled at 400 miles an hour for about 90 seconds before it hit a barley field. The last voice heard via radio was a woman's. "The [investigation] board decided they would report that one pilot seat was occupied by a spouse, but they would conceal the fact that the second pilot was also not at the controls during this mishap...
...life for the soldiers in Chechnya were dreadful. In Afghanistan we were issued special rations of canned meat, condensed milk, juice, crackers, tea and a Sterno can, so you could heat up kasha or rice with the canned meat. All I saw our soldiers eating in Chechnya was pearl barley with a bare hint of meat. Looking at this meager fare, I had the impression that we must have eaten up all the army's stores of dried rations in Afghanistan and that no one had bothered to produce any since then...
After all, Harvard's main weaknesses last year were its softness inside and its tendency to turn the ball over. This year, freshmen sensation Allison Feaster has made a Barley-esque impact, joining with Ivy Player of the Year candidate senior captain Tammy Butler to make Harvard's underbelly one of its strengths; the Crimson has outrebounded its opponents this year...
...fishes diet. His nutritional guide is the Bible: "The book of life. The book of food. The book of meals and miracles." % In its pages he finds the secrets of longevity and regularity. From Ezekiel come the ingredients for bread. Daniel serves lentils, and Nahum offers figs. Millet, barley, honeycombs and melons tumble from holy writ as exaltations of roughage...