Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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HEAVENLY VALLEY, KIRKWOOD, SIERRA SKI RANCH...
Back at the Ranch...
...military airfields, Hickam and Wheeler, Kaneohe and Ewa. Dive-bombing and strafing the American planes neatly parked on the runways, they quickly won control of the sky. They wrecked hangars, warehouses, barracks -- as well as the Hickam Field chapel and the enlisted men's new beer hall, the Snake Ranch. And in the midst of all this, a rainbow appeared over Ford Island...
Though she has never lived on a working farm, Smiley, 42, has roots in rural country. She once asked her grandmother what it was like on the family's Idaho ranch; the old woman replied, "I don't remember -- I was too busy cooking." Smiley, who teaches at Iowa State University, is a believer in the radical agriculture movement. But she sees an inescapable link between the exploitation of land and that of women, and here she parts company with farm reformers like Wendell Berry as well as nostalgia buffs who yearn for the smaller-scaled, prechemical days...
...Canyon Ranch, a glossy health spa on the outskirts of Tucson that specializes in alternative techniques, a gifted physical therapist named Karma Kientzler watches a patient, Susan Pinkus, operate an exercise machine. Chemotherapy for ovarian cancer had left Pinkus with severe nerve damage in her hands and feet; she had poor balance and almost no sense of control over her extremities. Kientzler's mind-and-body system, which she calls "emotion and motion," has brought Pinkus back to near normal. A few days ago, she was able to ride a horse on a trail. "You have given me back...