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...Christian Bale) may live in 19th century Arizona, but he's leading a 20th century - or sub-prime - sort of life. He's behind on his mortgage payments to the big landowner, who wants the property back in order to sell it on the Internet - oops, sorry, to the railroad. Dan's cattle herd is also dwindling, one of his kids is sick and the other thinks he's a coward. Even his patient wife is beginning to eye him dubiously. You really don't want to walk in Dan's shoes...
...type of fence, however, tells a better story about the changing American West than barbed wire, a tool as key to the region's settlement as the buffalo rifle, the railroad, the telegraph and the windmill...
...young Americans who were unemployed. Today there are 1.5 million Americans between 18 and 24 who are neither employed nor in school. These young men and women could address America's well-documented infrastructure problems. The Green Corps could reclaim polluted streams and blighted urban lots; repair and rehabilitate railroad lines, ports, schools and hospitals; and build energy-efficient green housing for elderly and low-income people...
...live in a “cozy” one-bedroom overlooking Tompkins Square Park. The four-room railroad apartment would be considered roomy for a couple, but we are not a couple (despite what we told the landlady) so we swap sleeping accommodations night to night, even though the bed is big enough for two. Before we move in, Kam picks up the keys. During his short visit, the landlady spreads herself over her couch in a provocative position and bends over in front of him while retrieving her cat. My roommate's years of practice in passing...
...Williams patrolling left field or imagine Carlton Fisk rounding the bases after his wave-it-fair home run in the World Series. Even without these vivid recollections, one fan could recall exactly where he sat in the 1946 World Series or another how he shimmied up the railroad ties backing up against the “Green Monster” when he didn’t have a nickel...