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...shade of maple trees, while a long line of neighbors formed, had their hands shaken and received a few words each, depending on the degree of their acquaintanceship... [At his cousin's home, the President] put on a pair of overalls, removed his collar and tie, loaded a hay wagon. Pictures were then taken...
...Agency for International Development (USAID) sent Sachs a letter suspending a $14 million contract with Harvard for development work in Russia. The letter accused Andrei Shleifer '82, the project director who is also professor of economics, and Jonathan R. Hay, the project director in Russia, of violating USAID's conflict of interest policies...
...Nevada. Tumbleweed stretches of empty highway roller-coaster over mountain ranges and down into salt flats, past ghost towns, federal prisons and legal brothels surrounded by barbed wire. In the sky, fighter-bombers execute mock dogfights and shoot laser-guided munitions at dummy air bases built from bales of hay. Gold mines--some old and haunted, some new and bustling--dominate corroded mountainsides, and the land in between is sagebrush open range populated by scrawny cattle and dotted with eerie bunkerlike structures with names like "U.S. Navy Centroid Facility." From the south, near the infamous secret air base known...
...detente, Lohr and Trampe started talking, and each was surprised by the other's willingness to learn. They began having long discussions about agriculture and the environment. Lohr saw that the area's century-old cattle-rotation system--driving the herds into the high country in summer while growing hay on the valley floor--meshes with the natural ecological cycle, benefiting the land. She married a local plumber and became a board member of the High Country Citizens' Alliance, an influential environmental group, but grew impatient with trust-fund recreationists who wanted to force cattle out of the high meadows...
With that, Baffert wiped at his watery eyes and blew his nose. Sentimental? No, actually he's allergic to hay and horses; always has been. That's just one of the anomalies on Baffert's past-performance chart. He grew up on the family ranch in Nogales, Ariz., rode quarter horses without much success, became something of a party animal while majoring in animal science at the University of Arizona, tried substitute teaching for a while, worked in a Tucson feed store for another while, then gravitated back to quarter horses as a trainer. He found his calling...