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Today semis are thundering along new dirt roads, heavy bulldozers are digging trenches for pipelines, overhead power lines are crisscrossing the valley, and drilling rigs are going up like mushrooms after a spring rain. Dube's spread is just another block on a gas company's exploration map as the Powder River basin becomes the center of a sudden boom in natural-gas drilling, one driven by rising prices, new extraction techniques and a recent federal decision to put 2,500 new wells on public land...
...long step below the World Wrestling Federation follies featured on TV. As he lay in his Duke hospital bed, Hunter, as Shotgun, promised surgeon Tuttle that he would not only one day wrestle again but also personally subject her to one of wrestling's more flamboyant moves, the overhead, body-rotating Airplane Spin...
...Hooker just a few years back. I had called him up to interview him about his latest album. Even over the phone his voice had a sonorousness that had one reaching for nature metaphors in order to describe it: echoes in underground caverns, waves booming against shorelines, thunder rolling overhead. Hooker was 79 then, and his health was starting to fail. I asked if he planned to do any touring anytime soon. "I'll go out once in a while," Hooker told me. He added: "I've paid my dues...
...Many workers have to travel hours each way by bus from colonias like Anapra, subdivisions that have sprung up without paved roads, water or sewer service. The homes look like preschool art projects, glued and stapled together from cardboard and plywood and tin. Bootleg power lines drop from overhead wires, loop down to the ground and are held in place by a rock, then snake through the sand to a house. Some wires are live, and arc and spit when it rains. The young women who live here are favored by the maquila bosses for their nimble fingers and obedience...
...Although the rally did not feature any celebrity speakers and did not attract more students than rallies in the past, a news helicopter flew overhead as the students marched across the Yard, armed with a loudspeaker and drums...