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...annual circuit begins in November when a few hundred of them pull away from homes in Michigan, New Jersey, Texas and a dozen other states and begin the trek to Outdoor Resorts in Indio, Calif., about 25 miles east of Palm Springs...
...department or school board that bind other people to their hometowns. Bus people have children who are now old enough to take over their businesses. But otherwise they are footloose. Their best friends are the other bus people they meet again and again on the road during the annual circuit...
There are plenty of signs of the shockingly sudden economic slowdown during my commute. The radio isn't filled with the hopeful jingles of Internet retailers, and I can almost always get a cell-phone circuit. Some of the signs are just that--vacancy signs dangling from buildings whose landlords until recently were demanding shares in the companies started by their tenants. And the blank billboards along Highway 101--the valley's main thoroughfare--mutely advertise the downturn. There are few tire kickers in the lots of the luxury-automobile dealers. Near my office, the people who sometimes paraded along...
...Williams lived and has often been described in the press and on the lecture circuit as the eruption's sole survivor. Nearly everybody in the small world of professional volcanologists, however, knew this to be untrue--in fact, five other people also came out of Galeras alive that day--and for years some of Williams' fellow scientists quietly criticized him both for leading the ill-fated field trip and then for capitalizing on its tragic aftermath...
Players respect each other and genuinely get along. They interact well with opposing coaches and they value the family-like atmosphere that has come to characterize the ever-expanding circuit...