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Wright Dickinson, 32, fourth-generation cattleman, lean as a post, had one troubled eye on the weather reports of storms tumbling over his family's land along the Green River in Wyoming and Colorado, the other on news accounts of plans to raise the $1.86 grazing fee (a cow and her calf for a month) to $3 or maybe $5 or even $10. Away from the floodlit Capitol dome, he said quietly, "We are standing on the edge of an abyss. It's scary. Unless we can find some basis for a rational discussion, we could lose...
Sheep rancher Nick Theos, all of his 72 years in the rugged rangeland of Colorado and Utah written on his face, was not as restrained. "If that fee goes up to $2 or $3 we are broke, out of business," he said with the sweep of a giant, scarred hand. By the weekend, Theos was back out in his sheep camps and Dickinson was in a wind chill near zero with his two sisters, brother and parents, all getting ready for the new calves that will begin arriving in a couple of weeks. "That's one of the problems...
...example, Colorado's recent discriminatory law prompted right-thinking folks to cancel trips to and performances in that state, and even sparked a debate over whether Harvard should turn down a gift of a Colorado ski resort. This type of divestment, however, merely deprives pro-gay rights people and organizations of the opportunity to exercise an influence in the state. it thereby worsens the condition of gays and supporters of gay rights there...
...Those shows, however, look like MTV next to Dr. Quinn. Jane Seymour, queen of the network mini-series, stars as the graduate of an Eastern women's medical college who answers an ad and moves west to practice in Colorado Springs in the 1860s. The residents are surprised and dismayed to discover that their new doctor is a woman (her name, unhelpfully, is Michaela), but she quickly proves her skills. In the meantime, she takes over the care of three youngsters whose mother has died of a rattlesnake bite. "After my real ma went to heaven, Dr. Mike...
...Crimson did not have the firepower to hold off Colorado, and the Buffaloes stampeded their way to a one-point victory...