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...price of hardwood that Ray cuts is lower, in part because the kilns buy more of the cheaper log slabs -- the cutoff outsides of logs when they are squared by a sawmill into lumber. These, along with the hardwood, are charred in kilns, put through a hammermill and mixed with charred sawdust, coal, limestone, sodium nitrate, borax, wheat paste and steam, which turns the mixture into a slurry that is pressed into briquettes and then put through a drying process...
...years ago that Americans walked into retail stores and saw the first fully assembled personal computers sitting on the shelves, waiting to be taken home and plugged into the socket. It was the beginning of the computer era for millions of people, ranging from sixth-graders learning to log on, to secretaries spinning out reams of letters, to hopeful authors plugging away at their novels on the screen...
...their pride and manufacturing prowess, the Japanese recognize that there are a few things that Americans know how to make best: hamburgers, soft drinks and, now, log cabins. Montana-based Alpine Log Homes, which has supplied handcrafted, custom-made log structures to U.S. national parks and forests for half a century, has agreed to sell $3 million worth of its products to a Japanese architectural firm, mainly for use in recreational areas. The bet is that Japanese vacationers, weary of crowded cities and suburbs, will enjoy a bit of Abe Lincoln-style living...
Hart, his wife Lee and their children spent most of the week at their stone-and-log cabin in Kittredge, Colo., 25 miles west of Denver. The man who had been the Democratic front runner just three days earlier stayed out of view of reporters even as he began work for the law firm of Davis, Graham & Stubbs. Hart joined the group as a part-time associate last January, mainly to bring in new business. He spent part of every day last week at the firm's 48th-floor downtown offices, which have commanding views of the Rocky Mountains. Associates...
...studied to be a veterinary technician in Denver, after which she moved to Alaska, homesteaded in the Wrangell Mountains, and started to raise and train sled dogs. She and her husband David L. Monson now own a kennel of 150 dogs in their Alaskan home. They live in a log cabin, 12 x 16 feet, without running water. Butcher melts ice in the winter, draws water from a nearby stream in the summer, and generates a limited supply of electricity. The closest neighbor is more than six miles away, mail is 25 miles away, and Fairbanks--the nearest town...