Word: ranched
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...MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE RANCH...
...With a teacher for a mom and a physician's assistant for a dad, Matthew North had two experts on the case from birth, but his problems baffled them both. "Everything was hard for Matthew," says Theresa North, of Highland Ranch, Colo. He didn't speak until he was 3. In school, he'd hide under a desk to escape noise and activity. He couldn't coordinate his limbs well enough to catch a big beach ball...
...surely deserves a break. Not that he didn’t deserve the compensation, of course; garbage collectors also make a pretty nice living. And don’t forget that a world without Yalies would also mean that President Bush would take a permanent vacation to the ranch. Cheney might also call in sick—there’s probably a good chance this happens on any given day. Maybe someone could even fix that whole Iraq thing...
...course, and in many cases, their location determines what they offer. Trilogy at the Vineyards, near San Francisco, for example, has a wine-country feel to attract locals who don't want to give up the Napa lifestyle and émigrés who want to adopt it. Anthem Ranch, near Denver, takes advantage of its ski-country site, making it easy for residents to hit the slopes or hike the mountains...
...visits to the ranch in Crawford are clearly in another category for Sauer, who apparently has plenty of time for the U.S. When the Berlin Wall came down, allowing him finally to travel freely, one of Sauer's first destinations was California, where he briefly took a job at a San Diego software company; Merkel visited him there before they were married. Merkel's "very positive image of America," says Langguth, dates from that period. During her first trip, "she gushed about the land of opportunity," says Langguth...