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...traipsing through the deserts of the Southwest and the forests of the northern Midwest, hoping to hear the staccato clicking of a brand-new Geiger counter. Homeowners all across America daydreamed of discovering uranium in their backyards and living on Easy Street forever. In New Jersey's Jefferson Township, a small (pop. 16,000) community nestled in green hills about an hour's drive from Manhattan, that old dream is a present reality. The rock beneath is veined with high-grade uranium ore that could be worth millions to those who own the land or win the rights...
...hills around Jefferson Township are honeycombed with old iron mines. Geologists have long known that some uranium must be there too, since it is often found in rock formations that yield iron. But the first hint that there might be enough to make mining worthwhile came only four years ago, when a retired contractor named Joseph Riggio received a letter from Pennzoil saying it had reason to believe there were "good amounts" of uranium on his property. Riggio reacted by getting in touch with Exxon, a Pennzoil rival. Exxon reacted by drilling some test holes on Riggio's land...
...determined to see that the American Dream is spread as widely as possible. Terkel does have is share of individualists--a race car driver, a libertarian philosopher, a Chicago cop--but he doesn't pretend that the Dream begins and ends with them. For all that the descendants of Jefferson and Thoreau hold sway over popular mythology, the spirit that producer Abolitionism, Populism and the New Deal still holds sway over many lives...
...Kuralt sent back video short stories describing life in those patches of light: an election in which nobody ran for office, a town full of champion duck callers, a 78-year-old man who had spent 20 years building a road singlehanded, a town on the edge of Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. Each vignette, Kuralt hoped, would provide "a little piece of the jigsaw puzzle that this country is." In sharp contrast to the rest of the news, his stories celebrated qualities of playfulness, compassion, pride, and individual accomplishment. Says he: "I could never nap or read...
This year Detroit is not just turning out new models; it is also trying innovative ways to build them. Aging plants have been gutted and filled with hundreds of millions of dollars of new equipment. Chrysler alone spent $100 million refurbishing the 73-year-old Jefferson Avenue plant, and claims that it will have 17% increased productivity. For instance, by installing engines in car bodies from the bottom up, instead of the traditional way from the top down, assembly is faster. GM is spending approximately $1 billion building new plants in St. Louis and Pontiac, Mich., to replace outdated ones...