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...owns a garage. Hastert loves to restore old cars and fire trucks. "Being powerful is something I never sought," he said, riding in his SUV last month past miles of corn and soybean fields in his district. "But I understand this is a fickle business, and we need to grab the moment...
...same, and yet very different. There are preachers like Graham whose gift is to grab hold of the hearts of the unchurched and launch them on a journey into faith. But it is one thing to inspire a moment of conversion; it is another to escort you, week after week, all the way home. The vast majority of preachers do their work in sanctuaries, not stadiums, before hundreds of listeners every week, not tens of thousands once a year. And for them, who are judged not only in the pulpit but also at the bedside, in the classroom...
...California's newest winemaking frontier--its long and rugged central coast. "The only thing I can liken it to is the Oklahoma land rush," says the winemaker known as the "grandfather of Paso Robles," Gary Eberle of Eberle Winery. "Get yourself a wagon, hitch up your horses, grab a couple of stakes and go like hell." When Eberle graduated from University of California at Davis' viticulture school in 1973, he paid $250 an acre for prime land just out of Paso Robles. Now that property would be worth between $20,000 and $25,000 per acre, he says...
That's because Morpheus links users to other users in a big game of telephone, much as Gnutella-based software like BearShare does. The difference is that anyone can grab the Gnutella code and produce their own conflicting versions of it (think too many cooks). But Morpheus has been honed to perfection by MusicCity's tech wizard, Darrell Smith. "We've been nurturing our network," he says. An advantage of that: as of September, Morpheus will do one-stop searching on the Gnutella network as well...
Major Reginald Mebane, who heads security for one of the state court buildings, organized a group of about 10 officers. They grabbed some medical equipment and hopped a court bus to help evacuate people. But when one tower began to collapse, they raced for cover inside Building Five of the Trade Center complex. The smoke made it so dark they could see only a few feet in front of them, even with flashlights. They felt their way along the walls and windows to get out. "The building just blew," says Bill Faulkner, 53, a Vietnam veteran who was part...