Word: hillses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This double sense of remoteness and self-importance--of living simultaneously on the fringe and at the center of things--pervades the local mind-set. One explanation might be all the gold--gold, the traditional hedge against inflation, the currency of fear. As anyone who has seen The Treasure of...
The truck rumbles into the pasture, a bovine maternity ward. Here a gawky newborn nuzzles its mother; there a fetal head and two hooves peek from the hindquarters of a cow that's ambling, wholly unconcerned, through the field. Sage grouse--a preposterously showy endangered species--strut and preen on...
Money in their pockets, agrees Li Xiumin, is the prerequisite for confidence and self-esteem, and it is not easy to acquire in these rough hills. She has been working hard to teach the poorest villagers that the government is no longer going to provide them with handouts and that...
DIED. RICHARD JAECKEL, 70, movie tough guy; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. A real-life Marine during World War II, Jaeckel took on the Japanese in the Sands of Iwo Jima. He was nominated for an Oscar in 1971 for his portrayal of a logger in Sometimes a Great...
TV and Nintendo haven't molded a whole generation into lazy slackers. Instead, the Xers are a better-informed, less gullible and more independent populace. Along with playing in garage bands, Generation Xers have started garage companies--virtual cottage industries in a time of downsizing conglomerates. And these start-ups...