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...archery range together so I could practice. He read to all his children, checked our homework and expected us to do well in school. When Dad was at work, I played cowboys, baseball, basketball and climbed trees with the neighborhood children. I rode my bike to the swimming hole and swung from a rope to drop into the lake. In short: I led the ideal boy's life. My dad's mentoring and fun-loving spirit filled my childhood with beautiful memories I will treasure for life. He made me a better person and a better mother...
...like carrying a pile of s___ in here and saying 'Look what we almost stepped in,'" he says. "When you have all this machinery and the clock is ticking and the dollars are just going out the window, most people panic. Paul says, 'All right, we're in a hole right now, and everybody needs to put down the shovel...
...Some good news came Wednesday when 69 coal miners were rescued after being trapped underground by floodwaters that poured into an abandoned shaft. They had spent more than three days underground, nourished only by milk poured through a ventilation hole and drunk out of upturned helmets, the Beijing News reported. Elsewhere, the outlook remains grim, with more than a week of heavy rain expected in several parts of the country...
...just because millions have one doesn't mean it's not an extravagance. Watching a tanker pump 30,000 gal. of water into an empty pool at a cost of $1,200 gives new resonance to the phrase "pouring money down a hole." Yes, that's less than a 10th of the water that the Neptune Pool at Hearst Castle holds, and we opted for vinyl and stamped concrete instead of Hearst's glass tile infused with gold and 17th century Italian bas-reliefs. Still, throw in a fence, a heater, a motorized cover and a filter pump that runs...
...former army officer who asked to be referred to as "Abu Ali", even admitted that he had a sister in Florida, and said he would come to the U.S. himself if he could. "America doesn't leave a country by force," said Samarai. "Bush has been in a hole, digging deeper. So every year, it has become more difficult for America to leave Iraq. But what the muqawimma [resistance] movement has done is more than America can bear. Now there is not only a military battle in Iraq, there is a political battle in the U.S." That part...