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...recent days, questions have been raised about how historians go about crediting their sources, and I have been caught up in the swirl. Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error...
...That's FARC doctrine too. Emerging from its jungle and mountain hideouts, the guerrillas have been ambushing troops and blowing up so many electricity pylons that some provinces are rationing electricity. Sabotage could hit Bogota itself, where the FARC has its urban "militia" in the slums at the capital's southern end. In Washington, the Colombian ambassador is lobbying for the U.S. to drop the Plan Colombia restriction that limits U.S. aid strictly to the drug-war campaign. The Colombians want U.S. training for a new mobile battalion that would protect the country's infrastructure...
...let’s call him Dusty) is wearing slightly different versions of the willowy rancher meets rugged mountain man outfit: a traditional wife-beater and stripped oxford (open, of course—wouldn’t want Dusty to overheat in the prairie sun), macho-man Texas-sized belt buckle and jeans. His seemingly unwashed, stringy, chin-length, dirty brown hair is either tucked innocently behind one ear or wisping across his rugged, bearded chin. Dusty is sensitive. He probably plays the banjo and knows how to speak Cherokee. He’s the kind of wilderness...
...prefers solids to floral prints and comfy pants to full ankle-length skirts—running through the fields with Dusty, our love child hanging in a hemp sling across my chest. After seven pages of Hollywood style, this-could-be-your-life type insanity, I wanted my rocky mountain high! Yes, Dusty, this land is your land, this land is my land too….this land was made for you and me (and little Leaf). Somewhere in the same part of my brain that enjoys watching Snow White sing “Someday My Prince Will Come...
...Number of tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste that Energy Secretary Abraham Spencer recommends be buried in Yucca Mountain, 90 miles from Las Vegas...