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...Gibson, quietly fries hamburger on a hot plate. A 27-year-old Native American, he traveled to Bullhead City from Oakland, California, with his brother, who "painted a beautiful picture of good work and higher pay. I should have known it was bull." Across the river is the casino boomtown of Laughlin, Nevada, and his brother, a gambler, landed in jail for a bad check, Gibson says. Now Gibson, who spent his teenage years in an Oregon correction facility, works in a Kingman plastics factory. But he dreams of heading to Northern California to pan for gold. "Nothing I love...
...private enterprise formed to look into investments in mining, lumber, agriculture, transportation and power generation, with an eye to plowing the profits back into humanitarian efforts. A nascent diamond-mining operation in Zaire is a project of the ADC. Located on a river southeast of the boomtown of Tshikapa in the heart of Zaire's diamond country, the project uses state-of-the-art dredges and diving equipment. Robertson is also exploring gold interests on the upper Zaire, or Congo, River, and assessing the hardwood logging potential of four great swaths of rain forest...
...Boomtown service workers find jobs but can't make the rent...
...Ireland gave the world Van Morrison; in the '70s, Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats; in the '80s, U2 and Sinead O'Connor. Now there's Black 47. The group's new album deals with such subjects as class warfare and potato famine, and their new video Funky Ceili is getting heavy play on MTV. Then there's the Irish band Hothouse Flowers, whose new album Songs from the Rain is both intelligent and evocative, full of the kind of arena-size emotions that are likely to seduce large audiences. And the new compilation Straight Outta Ireland -- whose title plays...
MUSIC Tiny Branson, Mo., is the boomtown of country music...