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...Dallas Cowboys' wide receiver Terrell Owens sure didn't look like a guy who had popped a bottle of pain pills, passed out and had his stomach pumped. At a press conference Wednesday at the team's Valley Ranch training camp, Owens admitted he was a bit vague about details of what happened Tuesday night at his downtown Dallas loft, but cut off talk about his mental state. "There was no suicide attempt," he said, a thin smile showing. "The rumor of me taking 35 pills is absurd...
...Brands to avoid are Natural Selection Foods (San Juan Bautista, Cal.), River Ranch (Salinas, Cal.) and RLB Food Distributors (West Caldwell, N.J.), all of which have recalled their bagged spinach and spinach-containing salad mixes...
...broiling day in August almost a decade later, Shakur offers me a tour of her newly constructed ranch home in Lumberton, N.C. She shows off a bathroom the size of a small apartment and talks up the 56 acres of farmland where she's growing USDA-certified organic crops and raising animals. That is what her son has left her. And it's easy to see what she gave him. She is excitable and charismatic, and she talks--and curses--freely, laughing in the middle of crying. In the late '60s, Shakur was one of the more outspoken black power...
...leasing the subsurface rights of those so-called split estates at an unprecedented pace to energy companies. Wyoming's abundance of gas reserves makes it especially attractive. The state's citizens have lived through energy booms--and busts--before. But while oil and gas jobs came and went, the ranch remained. This time, ranchers say, the boom risks ruining the land that has always sustained them for the easy-come, easy-go riches below...
Even if that protection holds up, it may not be enough to restore what many ranchers have already lost. Donley Darnell, 58, owner of 64,000 acres of ranch land near Newcastle in northeastern Wyoming, appreciates the royalty checks he gets, but he doesn't see why Wyoming's landowners should subsidize the energy industry for a few thousand dollars a year. And come the next bust, those payments may vanish instantly. The scars on their land...