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Whether they belong to begrimed children in Pennsylvania coal mines, languid prostitutes in the New Orleans redlight district, or impassive Navajos on horseback in the Southwest, they collapse the distinction between then...
Where did Rocky find mountains while horseback riding in Florida in 1972? Even with his wealth, can he move mountains into Florida...
...Havasupai clearly need help. They refuse to move to any other land because they want to be where their ancestors are buried. But their life in the canyon is nearly unbearable. During the summer some can make a modest living by guiding tourists on foot or horseback down to spectacular Havasu Falls, not far from their village. In winter, however, they are cut off, often for weeks, from the nearest medical aid and supplies. Groceries must be brought from a supermarket 110 miles away in Kingman, Ariz, and sell in the village co-op store for as much...
There is widespread fear today of new "men on horseback," of new demagogues. As governments wrestle with the problem of distributing ever more limited resources, thinkers like U.S. Economist Robert Heilbroner foresee a Hobbesian descent into authoritarianism and a siege economy in many nations?even in America. Heilbroner believes that perhaps modern man's aggressive and competitive instincts can be transferred from nature-destroying production to services?education, health care and the arts. But he doubts this can be done without paying a "fearful price" in democratic freedoms...
Steffens did so with an ambition and energy that had not been apparent during a boyhood largely spent riding horseback in the California countryside. By 1904 Steffens was one of the nation's best-known journalists. The Shame of the Cities, a book based on his exposes of big-city corruption, helped arm the short-lived reform movement whose grinning figurehead was Theodore Roosevelt. "The man with the muckrake" is what T.R. (borrowing from Pilgrim's Progress) called Steffens, thus giving generations of crossword-puzzle workers the nine-letter word muckraker...