Word: ranched
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...America. In consumer America, diversity of preference is not just tolerated. It is mandatory. The market has created reasons for us to be finicky and dissatisfied about anything - cable TV, pasta sauce, running shoes, yoga programs. It depends on you to like zesty Italian and me to like chipotle ranch and someone else to like low-sodium raspberry honey mustard. Through niche media, niche foods and niche hobbies, we fashion niche lives. We are the America of the iPod ads - stark, black silhouettes tethered by our brilliant white earbuds, rocking out passionately and alone. You make your choices...
...years ago, Marc and Karen Frankel paid $850,000 for a two-bedroom, two-bath ranch-style home in Tenafly, N.J.--and knocked it to the ground. In the process, they joined a swelling group of ambitious homeowners who, faced with a superhot real estate market, have concluded that the only way to get just the house they want in just the neighborhood they want is to demolish an existing home and build one from scratch. The National Association of Home Builders estimates that some 50,000 teardowns take place each year...
...advantage of the resort's seaside golf course can expect to encounter plenty of the local wildlife, including a boa that has taken up residence in a heavily wooded patch of trees by the 14th hole. This has come at no sacrifice to amenities. Accommodations and services around the ranch are top-notch...
...grows thick and trembles in the wind. On the other side, the ground is nearly bare, chewed down in places to the rocky topsoil. In between are splintered fence poles and scattered strands of electric wire that, until last month, closed off a 20,000-hectare central Kenyan commercial ranch from the communal grazing lands of Masai herdsmen. To the Masai, most of whom make their living raising cows, sheep and goats, the landscape's stark divide is testimony to their need for grazing lands. With a population of about half a million, the Masai are one of the smallest...
...that the Swift Boat controversy reached a rabid apogee--that would be the day a Bush campaign lawyer resigned because of his ties to the Swifties, and Max Cleland made the stagy delivery of a protest letter to the Bush ranch--a woman named Elba Nieves stood at a town meeting in Philadelphia and told John Kerry that she had recently been laid off. The candidate proceeded to ask her a series of questions. She answered with quiet dignity. She had worked in a ribbon factory for four years. She said the company was having trouble keeping up with foreign...