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...business owners, entrepreneurs who struggled their way to success--and that experience, more than anything else, seems to explain why they became bus people. They toiled so hard early in life to establish the trucking company or insurance agency that they never had time for excursions to the Grand Canyon or Washington...
...break might give the Golden State's overloaded power grid some much-needed time to cool off. Yesterday was just about as bad as it could get without going dark; a number of power plants were down for planned, necessary winter maintenance and a storm seriously crippled the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on the central coast, knocking out a good portion of the state's dwindling supply of electricity. Only last-minute intervention by the state, which purchased emergency power from the Northwest, averted rolling blackouts...
...remains in a precarious position, most observers are cautiously optimistic that the lights will stay on over the weekend. Many of the plants that were down for repairs are going back online. The weather, while still bad, shouldn't be as rough as Thursday's torrential storms, and Diablo Canyon is already up and running to full capacity. Also, now that Energy Secretary Bill Richardson has extended the emergency order requiring generators to sell power to the strapped California market until next Wednesday, suppliers won't be able to turn off the spigot, no matter how debt-ridden the state...
...shoes to Bush, and you'll spend months cleaning up the mess. No, the irony of Bill Clinton is that he may have felt our pain, but we didn't feel his. We just listened joyously for which funny sound he'd make as he bounced happily off the canyon floor...
...have the texture of a worn brush. He stops the truck to show us a rare cottonwood and make sure we can all see the white-tailed deer hiding in the trees. "Motts are what they call those groupings of oaks," notes Bush. He catalogs every stream crossing, every canyon and the precise number of cows, bulls and calves that he lets graze on his land. There's Ophelia, the gray Texas Longhorn his staff gave him as a pres- ent. Some of the gray oak trees look like old villagers, wrinkled and stooped, as if they have fought hard...