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...Australia's social project is flourishing. Out on Highway 1, which at times seems more "mono" than "multi," that success is not always apparent; sometimes the bush feels like a decaying museum. Look a little deeper, spend a little time, and the country reveals itself: the hardbitten farmer with a greenie tinge and the Aboriginal painter who likes the patterns and colors in her works (and even more so, the cash from sales of dotty art) defy attempts at categorization. Such layers of identity, and the diversity of the suburbs, schools and shopping malls in the towns and cities...
...defy social conventions, stepping beyond family and farm to create their own economic opportunities. Try telling Trang, a woman I met who works six days a week in a bar and studies English and computer science all seven, that she would be better off at home with her rice-farmer parents; or Minh, a business student working twelve-hour shifts as a waitress six days a week. It’s not easy for them to confront social norms that would limit them to the role of a subordinate worker in a society run by men. Yet they persist, promoting...
...spoiled. On the hill farms where I live, if a lamb is orphaned, it's taken inside, sometimes even into the house, and hand fed by the farmer?s wife. So the lambs get used to people, and a lamb like that will come toward people because they are a source of food. Dolly had a similar situation; she did see a lot of people, an awful lot more than most sheep. And because we wanted her in a particular place to be photographed, she was often given extra food. So she got different by being spoiled and getting...
...Tester is not your average farmer, of course. He's a former public-school music teacher and a successful politician, the president of the Montana state senate. But in April, in the midst of a hot primary race, Tester took five days off from the campaign to seed his 1,800-acre farm in the eastern Montana flatlands. "Look, I do the things real people do. I plow, I seed, I harvest. I do some of my best thinking on my tractor," Tester told me as he campaigned in Whitefish, Mont., last week...
...angry political trope-but a new aw-shucks version of the little guy's lament has been growing out West with the success of candidates like Salazar and Montana's Democratic Governor Brian Schweitzer. Asked about alternative fuels in his first debate with Burns, Tester went full-court farmer. "If I weren't here right now," he said, "I'd be out getting a vegetable press so I could press my own oil to burn in my tractors and trucks." There wasn't much Burns could say to that. He had been out-Montana'd. He tried to blame...