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...University of Texas, to strike the first anvil for America.* While new plants are certain to be coming to your neighborhood, each Champion will be assigned to work outside of their community to challenge them outside of their comfort zone. Youth will be exposed to America's heartland and forgotten towns like Wierton, West Virginia and Drakesboro, Kentucky, spots brimming with sturdy life skills and bedrock values not available on MTV. Host "barracks" at decommissioned military bases provide the kind of stable environment any good parent would want: a secure perimeter supplemented with locks and alarms on doors and windows...
...This is the Taiwanese heartland, where kids still play marbles with pits of dragon eye fruit the way Chen did when he was a boy. They still go swimming in the creek and roast water chestnuts on charcoal braziers. When Chen was growing up here during the 1950s, Taiwan was still struggling for survival; today's grandiose notion of cultural identity was a distant luxury. While the newly arrived leaders of the Kuomintang, freshly landed from the mainland, were building their capital in Taipei, for the native Taiwanese, descendants mostly of Fujian and Guangdong natives who settled during the 17th...
...what I do. We layover in Dallas, I make some phone calls back east, and it doesn't help - the wall of worry is still lingering at the fringes and pestering me just for spite. We take off again out of Dallas and head north over Kansas and the heartland before hitting some serious Rockies...
...millions of SUVs, McMansions and stock options later, we decided to check in with some of the people featured in that cover story. In the '90s, we found out, living the simple life wasn't so simple after all. Once TIME's story came out, Karen was inundated with heartland grocery-store owners begging her to buy their stores. She and her soon-to-be fiance John Foley did purchase a second store and eventually expanded into the restaurant business. Today she and John have sold that business, and they run a profitable Internet company in San Francisco called Needwaitstaff.com...
...trend has quickly spread from Hollywood to the heartland. According to the latest Department of Health and Human Services survey on drug abuse, about 1.5 million people started taking prescription painkillers for "nonmedical" purposes in 1998--nearly three times the number who started in 1990. "There are two reasons that people are abusing prescription pain medications," says David Rolston, a program director at Santa Monica's Clare Foundation rehab center. "They can be used as supplements to street opiates like heroin, and there isn't the same stigma associated with them...