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...noise from two wind generating systems." Alexander says when the rotors catch the sun at particular angles, a flickering light permeates his house. Indeed, it isn't easy to sell a house that sits near a turbine. Julie and Bart Thiry of Kewaunee County, Wis., who live in a ranch house 800 ft. away from the nearest of five turbines, believe that the windmills are somehow responsible for the persistent headaches of their 8- and 9-year-old daughters. Bart, a school bus driver and janitor, says when he tried to sell the house, he couldn't get an offer...
Among the rarest honors that�President Bush bestows is induction into the Hundred Degree Club. Its members are the aides who have managed to keep up with him running a dusty three-mile course at his Crawford, Texas, ranch when the temperature is above 100�. It's certainly one way to get to know someone's heart, or at least his heart rate. Harriet Miers, 60, Bush's former personal lawyer, then loyal White House aide, was one of the few women to spend time clearing cedar with Bush on the ranch and pacing him on his runs, and over...
...incorrectly he read David H. Souter when he chose him for the high court, but Bush knows few lawyers as well as he knows Miers. She has traveled with him often, dodging leaking oil from military helicopters and roughing it in the senior staff trailer at the ranch in Crawford. When her name was floated toward the end of the consideration process, most reporters thought it was a head fake, in part because she is 60. Republicans had expected someone younger who could theoretically serve longer, since the court may turn out to be the crown jewel of the Bush...
...hurt the U.S. to acknowledge China with some higher-class state treatment; neither would it hurt China to stop caring about face so much. Whether the next summit is rescheduled as a state dinner at the White House or a tête-à-tête at the Crawford ranch, leaders on both sides must commit themselves to an honest conversation about their diplomatic futures. The future stability of the world depends...
...several factors. Some are specific to his CEO style, others endemic to second terms, but all of them came together in early September much like Katrina itself. The first was his elongated summer vacation: Bush upped to nearly five weeks his traditional month of working vacation at the Crawford ranch, a vacuum that always alarmed his aides because it gave others an opening for capturing the news agenda. While the staff agonized about whether he should try to head off mounting criticism of the Iraq war by meeting a second time with Cindy Sheehan to discuss the death...