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...three years of drought in southwestern Colorado, Gillen's fields are parched, his irrigation water is spent, and he has been selling off land and livestock to cover debts. His banker keeps telling him that he should find some other line of work, that farming these days "is pretty grim." But after a lifetime of farming, Gillen says, "where would I go to find work? Welcoming people at Wal-Mart...
Shortly afterward, Hilary told me she had resigned herself to a certain kind of grim fame: "I've heard about people having their 15 minutes. I think I've had a little more than 10, and I'm done with it. But I don't think it will stop. Maybe someday when I get older, get a job and move away from Avon, maybe at that point I won't be that different from anyone else...
...Donia began Sept. 11, 2001, at Sears, outfitting the nursery for their first baby. Shoppers and clerks rushed toward the electronics department as row after row of television sets showed the same grim scene. That night Perez pondered his future. "Are you going to have to go somewhere now?" La Donia kept asking. "We're having a baby, so they're not going to send you, right...
...husband's family; it was the loud insistence of the public (and the advice of her counselors), that convinced the Queen to order an extravagant royal funeral for the late Princess. Diana's coffin, laden with white blooms, was pulled through the streets of sobbing London, followed by her grim-faced ex-husband, her heartbroken brother and her beloved sons...
...tone" back to the days of pessimism, when partisan politics pitted businesses against clean air and water. It has turned the environmental agenda over to big polluters, denouncing even modest reforms as technologically impossible and economically ruinous. These doomsday predictions aren't new: if Richard Nixon had believed polluters' grim fairy tales, he never would have put an end to the days when lakes and rivers literally caught fire...