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...worked in the oil industry and baseball; the other dropped out of college and laid oil pipes out West. Neither speaks too much, preferring action to words. Hobbies? Fly-fishing, with little talking; walking on the ranch. An energy crisis? Drill for more oil. A teaching failure? Test 'em. A surplus? Give it back to the people...
...numbers in Phoenix, or Denver or Los Angeles, come walking, running and crawling north across the border. Each night border-patrol agents round up roughly 500 and next morning return them to Mexico, only to have them start all over again the following evening. It's a never-ending drill, often with life-and-death stakes. The border patrol says 383 people died last year attempting to cross the border from Mexico. "Is this problem solvable?" asks Victor Manjarrez, 37, top agent in the Naco station. "I think we in the border patrol are getting better at what...
...Leahy, now the presumptive chairman of the Judiciary Committee, could spare a moment to meet with him. There was the business lobbying group known as Arctic Power, quietly canceling a 10-state, $500,000 radio ad blitz designed to sell Memorial Day motorists on President Bush's plan to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. There were the two dozen tripods set up a full hour before Tom Daschle made his first march down the Capitol steps as Senate majority leader--a striking change from the single C-SPAN camera that used to cover...
...know it's surprising to see a different gas price every time you stop at a Texonobil. It's not like every time you go to Safeway, jujubes jump up or down 50%. But that probably explains why there aren't billion-dollar multinational conglomerates that drill for jujubes. Though, to be honest, I think that would be a wonderful world...
...Playing hooky. I'm off to a simulation of Central Park at the Museum of Natural History. (The park was closed years ago when a previous administration decided to drill for oil there during the 2001 energy shortage...