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...Hannah, the Southern writer who died at age 67 on March 1. Many of his greatest admirers were writers themselves. In 2000, when news spread that Barry had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, more than 50 young writers staged a banquet to honor him. They came from Montana and New York and Florida to be with the author of Airships and High Lonesome for one evening and let him know how much he meant to them...
...secret of its fervent desire that majority leader Harry Reid pass some kind of bipartisan legislation. So it was with a bit of fanfare that the White House welcomed Thursday a bipartisan Senate deal on $85 billion jobs legislation forged after weeks of negotiations between Senators Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat, and Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican. And it was to more than a bit of confusion that Reid hours later threw out the deal, replacing it with a stripped down $15 billion bill that would only provide scaled-back tax credits and help for small businesses, highway construction...
...invasive species like the Rocky Mountain pine beetle, which has ravaged trees from Colorado to Montana, cause an estimated $120 billion worth of damage annually. "Invasives take over the habitat that native species need to survive and persist," says Frank Lowenstein, director of the Nature Conservancy's (TNC) Forest Health program and an expert on invasive species. "Eventually invasives just start replacing natives...
...Mamma Mia! and Big Love) and a big war (he re-enlists after 9/11). That's why girls ran wild at the wickets, in the biggest Super Bowl weekend opening ever: Dear John just topped the $31.1 million that was amassed two years ago by Miley Cyrus' Hannah Montana concert movie. (Ask Your Questions: Avatar director James Cameron...
...only Huckleberry Finn rivals Catcher in the Rye in luring readers to imagine the young character’s "life" that follows the book’s end. Twain teasingly ventured in his autobiography that Huck became "a justice of the peace in a remote village in Montana and was a good citizen and greatly respected." An essayist in Time conjured Holden at 40 as a Columbia alum who left his PR job to become a country club golf pro; divorced and remarried with two daughters, he ended up teaching at a prep school in dangerous, dirty...