Word: ranches
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Perot has had access to Presidents since he first visited Lyndon Johnson at his Texas ranch. Perot was Ronald Reagan's kind of guy. Reagan appointed him to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Reagan thanked Perot for bankrolling three attempts to rescue American hostages in Lebanon. When he was Vice President, Bush arranged for Perot to have a private conversation with Reagan at Blair House to discuss American prisoners Perot believed were being held captive in Southeast Asia. Perot reported that the President had "personally asked me to stay on top of the issue." But when Reagan cooled...
...real argument, of course, is not with the 1.3 billion bovines that roam the planet but with modern methods of mass-producing beef that include plumping animals with hormones and stuffing them with "enough grain to feed hundreds of millions of people." Although he did not personally visit a ranch or a meat-packing plant, his stomach-churning descriptions of how cattle are treated from birth to slaughter brim with righteous indignation. (A reformed carnivore, Rifkin says he swore off beef 15 years ago after taking three bites of a revolting blue-gray hamburger, then throwing the rest away...
Just as more and more computer-wise workers will earn their keep from home offices, a growing number of students can expect to get their degrees without ever setting foot on campus. Susan Lerner, 40, of Burnt Ranch, Calif., is doing so now. An elementary school teacher at a remote Hupa Indian reservation, she has enrolled in a new M.A. program in educational technology offered by George Washington University in Washington, 2,500 miles away. Lerner takes two four-hour courses a week, beamed to her via the satellite dish in her yard, and keeps in touch with her professors...
...Oslin once made a living as a Broadway chorus girl, and when she turned to country in her mid-40s, it was to sing about such nonbucolic topics as older women sleeping with younger men. Even the down-home Reba McEntire, who spent her youth on her father's ranch and on the rodeo circuit, went on to college, where she studied classical violin and piano and "analyzed Mozart every which...
...Today show calls to schedule an interview. The White House phones about its invitation to dinner. Director Francis Ford Coppola's office rings to discuss a date for a visit to his Napa Valley ranch...