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Sitting on the front verandah of his modest weatherboard cottage in the sun, looking out over a blaze of daffodils, describing in his even, unhurried voice the eating habits of crows and the swallows' nests under the eaves, Bob Brown is in his element. After buying this spectacularly beautiful piece of land at Liffey, in central Tasmania, in 1973, Brown lived here for a decade, choosing to do without phone or hot water, cooking in pots on the open fire, and cycling 100 km every weekend to work shifts as a general practitioner in Launceston...
...given a pony ride by her aunt Kay, and the virus of horsewomanship enters her blood, and thereafter, every Saturday morning for the next 12 years, I must drive her to Foxcroft Stables and watch Emmett, the chain-smoking, bourbon-soaked stableman, help my child up onto Crimson Blaze, who gallops away, leaping over hedges and fences, and after 15 minutes, I need a powerful tranquilizer, the kind they'd administer to a horse. Or a little girl could pick up a hockey stick and sense its potential for violence, and thus 10 years later, I have...
...California the wildfire season generally ramps up slowly, and the largest fires usually don't arrive until fall. But this year is different, says Riverside County fire captain Rick Vogt, surveying the aftermath of a blaze that swept through the rural community of Sage, 80 miles from San Diego, with unseasonal intensity late last month, blackening more than 3,500 acres. Fire fighters this time were able to contain the flames, but next time they may not be so lucky. A five-year drought has left this always arid region even dryer than usual, and when the hot Santa...
...opened a window into troubles at the high-flying studio, launched in a blaze of publicity in 1994 by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. The IPO filing reveals that DreamWorks' animation division lost more than $350 million over the past five years. It also warns of a litany of potential pitfalls, from the studio's meager slate of big-budget films to its undersized library of movies from which to generate cash during lean years...
...another guy as a favor. He was scheduled to drive. He went to another guy on the crew. He said, 'You know, I hate to drive. I want to go in. If we get a call, I want to switch with you.'" They got a call--a raging warehouse blaze that killed Lucey and five other men. "There was no regret in it," Leary says. "It was what he did. When he was alive, he'd tell his parents and anyone who asked, 'If I die, you're just going to have to deal with...