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...Battle Creek, Mich...
...million people in an area the size of Massachusetts) that reporters often end up at the same skirmishes, trying to match one another, quote for quote and photo for photo. Earlier this month a crew for Cable News Network struggled along a dirt road as bumpy as a creek bed toward a former school where the army had installed an antiguerrilla operation. With its armed soldiers and landing helicopters, the place provided the kind of "visuals" that television thrives on. Only one sight marred this otherwise perfect photo opportunity: Richard Wagner of CBS and his crew had got there first...
...Fall Creek...
...tree dozing (a crawler tractor with a tree bit on the front uproots each tree). Tree dozing worked so well on John Cargile's ranch at Arden, Texas, that whole stretches of his range are innocent of mesquite. The land gives an impression of splendid cleanliness. A creek flows not far from the ranch house-a sweet luxury in a dry country. Cargile and his wife Ta will take a guest there for a picnic on a moonlit evening, and there is something almost profligate in the sound of the water flowing at one's feet. In this...
...chills. Many tourers are family groups that simply strike out from the back door after a snowfall. Unplowed roads, golf courses and frozen lakes provide paths for the basis of the sport: rhythmic, exhilarating exercise in the country air. Observes Buck Elliott, operator of Colorado's Crooked Creek Ski Touring ranch: "We're back to a simpler life. Out here, you become more aware of what breathing and eating are all about." -ByJ.D. Reed...