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That lethargic scene has been playing itself out for months now across broad swaths of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. City dwellers in those states, out for a Sunday afternoon drive in the country, may not recognize the creeping devastation sweeping past their car windows. Irrigated fields are still green, overshadowing the brown, crisping lands between and around them. Thanks to lessons learned in the 1930s, farm acreage has long been tilled and cultivated with an eye to soil conservation, to making fields less likely to blow away; the contemporary Dust Bowl is not as dusty...
...supporters of the new law say it is working just fine. Gary Mitchell, chief of staff of the House Agriculture Committee, notes that most wheat acreage in the drought-affected areas is insured--specifically, 91% in Colorado, 86% in Kansas, 85% in Oklahoma and 79% in Texas. Fears of widespread farm defaults and bankruptcies have not yet materialized. Larry Cervenka, a banker in Taylor, believes "96% to 97%" of local farmers will stay afloat, at least in the immediate future, because they raise both crops and cattle. But the fears and anxieties run high. "I wish," Cervenka adds, "Americans could...
That was in Oklahoma, one of seven states where Pasquale has spent his life. (The others are New York, Kentucky, California, Arizona, Texas and Massachusetts...
...Those first three years when she was in Oklahoma and I was in Kentucky, we only saw each other on vacations," Fine says, adding that the two were able to spend some week-ends together in college...
...That's what makes the Kennedy School great. It's a mixture of academics who have real political experiences," said Mickey Edwards, lecturer in public policy and a former U.S. representative from Oklahoma...