Word: northerner
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What does matter, Hillerman says, is the common thread that being raised "poor, rural, immensely dependent on the weather, [and] in relative isolation," gives. It is this shared experience that makes him more comfortable at the Two Gray Hills Trading Post in northern New Mexico than at a faculty meeting at Albuquerque's University of New Mexico, where he taught journalism for several years...
Hillerman's latest novel in his Navaho mystery series, The Fallen Man, features both of his Navaho police detectives, Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee. The Fallen Man is set on and about the 1,700 foot high Shiprock, a spiritual site for the Navaho in northern New Mexico...
...Ireland's prominent politicians discussed prospects for a resolution to the conflict in Northern Ireland at the Institute of Politics' ARCO Forum last night...
...build and operate power plants in 17 states from Oregon to Florida. "In no way, shape or form are we moving away from electric generation as part of our business," says PG&E president Robert Glynn Jr. "We've transformed what years ago was a utility company focused on northern and central California into a national and what is beginning to be a global energy company...
...media got wind of our story, and the Saskatchewan facility was top news for weeks; no doubt the rustlers would be on extra guard now. After Lori spoke with her crystallographer, ChrySanda, in North Hollywood, we roamed northern Montana on an "energy hunch." When we showed up in small-town cafes and feedlots to show photos of cow No. 388 (Lori's brood) and No. 441 (mine), we invariably created a sensation--the old good/evil polarity, plus, well, we were and are stars. Citizens were both righteous and helpful, and we always drove away feeling bathed in love...