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...land rush has broken out on California's newest winemaking frontier--its long and rugged central coast. "The only thing I can liken it to is the Oklahoma land rush," says the winemaker known as the "grandfather of Paso Robles," Gary Eberle of Eberle Winery. "Get yourself a wagon, hitch up your horses, grab a couple of stakes and go like hell." When Eberle graduated from University of California at Davis' viticulture school in 1973, he paid $250 an acre for prime land just out of Paso Robles. Now that property would be worth between...
...Forced out of the forest and into the baking sunlight of the logging road, the confident warrior has transformed into a weak and confused old man. He has put on a purple T shirt and blue shorts to hitch a ride with his wife Iot in a pickup truck to get some medical help. Usually voluble, Along falls silent, his face clenched in anxiety as they approach town. Now and then he inquires aloud whether there is any cash to pay for the hotel and the doctor. Along has no money; he never does. That...
...fixed route. Sometimes I would hitch a ride on an army truck and go wherever it would take me; sometimes I would toss a coin at a crossroads to decide which way to head. When my money ran out, I found ways of making enough to keep me going. I became a fortune-teller, a hairdresser, a peddler of fake toothpaste and pink chiffon scarves. I helped make sofas in Guizhou province and fished for yellow carp on Qinghai Lake. In the cities, I would camp in flea-ridden hostels, in the countryside I would often just sleep...
...Harley mystique. CEO Jeffrey Bleustein says he's No. 38 on the waiting list for a V-Rod at his local dealership. And for more than three years, riders have been sending Bleustein money as a deposit for a special centennial-edition model in 2003. There's only one hitch: Harley hasn't even announced such a celebratory bike yet. Bleustein can only hope that the V-Rod gets the next generation of bikers to finally follow their parents' lead...
...Davidson, meanwhile, is just on a long hitch doing monkey research for the Air Force. He?s vaguely rebellious in a Keanu Reaves kind of way, complaining about monkeys doing mens? jobs (a nod to "The Right Stuff") and zipping off in his space pod to save his favorite chimp, Pericles. But he couldn?t be less interested in the implied philosophical musings that come with the movie - and distinguished it from the mass of movies before or since - and on screen they suffer from lack of nourishment. (Wahlberg does manage a few good lines about how nutty this planet...