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...water runs off under roots, around rocks, channeling down the dirt roads, washing away culverts and shoulders and gravel. At night it freezes again, heaving the roadbed up into ridges like a freshly plowed field. By dawn the ground is reglazed with ice. With the sun the gurgle and tumble start anew. The soil undulates, like a waterbed...
...Dairy Farmer Charles Keeler. His phone is still listed. Standing in his barnyard, a seasonal bog, he says, "You can plow snow, but not mud. There's not much you can do about mud except wait for it to go away. The only thing to do is add gravel-18 inches is a pretty good surface-but mud season occurs before the town gravel pit melts...
Since losing his job as a forklift driver at a mill in Molalla, Ore., last August, James Wittig, 35, has been scrambling for a job. He applied to work as an exterminator and tried to land a job laying gravel. "I'll try anything, but there's nothing," he says. "If there's a job open in Oregon, there's at least 100 people trying to get it." Wittig's wife works as a cook for $360 a month to support him and their two children, but it is not nearly enough. Says Wittig...
...light is all but gone. One can barely make out the drunken, lurching figure in the center of the stage. "They still hate you!" he howls in a voice of blistered gravel. "They still hate you!" Two rifle shots ring out as if to verify his charge, and the man falls dead...
...first ice usually forms. Meanwhile, pregnant females, urged on by another instinct, head for a bleak region 50 miles south of Churchill, the largest known polar bear denning area in the world. As many as 100 females hole up there for the winter in dens scooped out of the gravel and snow to have their cubs, usually two at a time. The new families will not emerge from their hideaways until spring...