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...classroom teachers, Spoons provides an 80-page curriculum and support. The program, which takes about an hour a week for five weeks, is coordinated by a local food professional and a chef, in some cases culinary luminaries such as Tim Love of the Lonesome Dove Western Bistro in Fort Worth, Texas, and Feliberto Estevez, the executive chef at Gracie Mansion in New York City. The chefs and coordinators all volunteer their time, and many of the ingredients and supplies are donated by local purveyors...
From 1939 to 1966, the Duke and Pappy made 14 films together. This package contains eight of their burliest, including The Searchers, that towering, troubling essay on race, sex and Manifest Destiny. It also has Wayne's starmaking turn in Stagecoach and the late-'40s cavalry films Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. All these westerns constitute a romantic first draft of American expansionist history, with Wayne as the surly Moses, urging his settlers on toward the promised land...
...Bureau of Engraving and Printing, an arm of the U.S. Treasury, produces 35 million notes a day with a face value of approximately $635 million at its two printing facilities--in Washington and Fort Worth, Texas--and all those greenbacks are printed on paper supplied by Crane and shipped by truck from Massachusetts. Any interruption in that production could be "devastating to the U.S. economy," Van Den Brandt says...
Ever since Thanksgiving, at Fort Campbell, as at dozens of other Army posts around the country, rumors about deployment had been racing around--but then the date would be pushed back, pushed back. The Richardsons got to have Christmas. That was a gift. Then more weeks passed, more rumors. It was that kind of winter, of rushing and waiting, counting days and counting blessings. "The hardest thing about any deployment to the gulf will be leaving her," said Laura of her daughter. When Jim and Laura broke the news that they were both heading overseas, Lauren admitted that...
...edge in knowing what to expect, having already done a tour through the war on terrorism's other front: Afghanistan. He remembers the frustration he felt last March when he walked into the Emergency Operations Center at Fort Campbell and listened in on a battle occurring at that moment across the world: the early stages of Operation Anaconda. The soldiers of the division's 3rd Brigade had walked into a hornet's nest and clearly did not have the firepower they needed. By the end of the day, the division commander had ordered Jim and the rest of his battalion...