Word: lande
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...their rainfall. The 32 acres of U.S.-leased land on both sides of the bay resemble less the lush semitropical island across the minefields than the set for a Hollywood western: sandy, rock-strewn hills and beaches, barren except for a random dotting of cactus. Hardly the site anyone would choose to build from scratch what amounts to a new city for 65,000 people...
...Finding land on which to pitch tents for the balseros is no problem -- except to the 3,000 U.S. service members who will lose the company of their families and the use of recreational facilities. Tents, flown in from the U.S. mainland, are being set up on the base's softball and baseball diamonds, a soccer field, even the paltry sand-and-rock golf course; the beach where the soldiers and sailors swim will soon house the headquarters of a military- civilian task force that will oversee the camps. Military spouses and children are being flown out because of electric...
...apartments the help used to rent -- and there is scant room left to build more. The reason is location, location, location: these picturesque hamlets beckon and charm and cost the earth because they are usually isolated and they often cannot grow, surrounded -- especially in the Rockies -- by federal lands that are vertical. And where the private land flattens out sufficiently, the people with bulging purses are putting up $1 million log cabins. So the help either commutes from a distance out by where the sun sets or sleeps nearby, under stars...
...stick around? "This is God's land," says 26-year-old John Korte, who lives in a little pickup he parks here and there. Harold Wondsel lives in an old bus and Bill Pinkard in a mountainside lean-to and Rusty Scott in a condemned mining shack with four buddies -- no locks, no heat, cold water, expecting an eviction notice, in case he was getting comfortable (he heard the property has been sold for half a million). "There's no concept of the pain we go through," said Scott, a counterman who made it through -40 degreesF nights...
...husband have roots on different continents, several of the CD's songs deal with flying and separation. "It takes a long time to get over there," she sings on Seven Hours, co-written with Mamet. "Nearly seven hours in the air ... From the brave hills of Scotland to the land of the free." From Scotland to America, from actress to singer, The Raven proves Pidgeon handles transitions well...