Word: ranches
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About an hour outside Houston, at the end of a dirt road, sits a rambling ranch house where peacocks, emus and even a camel wander in the yard. It's hardly what you would expect the U.S. national training center for gymnastics to look like. But this is gym HQ because Bela and Martha Karolyi live here. Once a month, they open their 2,000-acre spread to a few elite gymnasts in an effort to return the U.S. to the glory of 1996. That was the year Martha coached the U.S. women's squad--the Magnificent Seven...
...added that the Clark family had already been very generous to the University, citing Joseph Clark Jr.’s service on the Board of Overseers and other work with Harvard, as well as the sale of his Wyoming ranch to fund an endowed professorship...
...nerve center of this musical empire is Davis' home, on a 100-acre ranch outside Omaha, just 20 miles from the Strategic Air Command and its huge stockpile of nuclear weapons. He lives with his wife, his three children and several German shepherds and raises chickens, holds barbecues and peers through the telescope of his own astronomical observatory. In his basement is a well-equipped recording studio, in which he composes and mixes. Microphones are planted in the surrounding woodlands to record the natural sounds he incorporates into sound tracks. A private jet sits on a tarmac 15 minutes away...
...U.F.C. video game will allow you to fight as Lorenzo, who apparently is much stronger than he looks. Their parents gave them a bunch of local casinos, which, along with revenue made from consulting with Native Americans on casino operations, they have used to build the slick Green Valley Ranch Resort & Spa, a hotel about 15 minutes from the Strip that is the choice for celebrities who are too cool for the crowds. As in the Palms, the casino--which is on a different floor from the lobby and contains a food court--is for local regulars and the rooms...
...what Mayor Goodman calls, without irony, the intellectual center of Vegas. That center is being defined, in true American fashion, not by an ocean or an island but by a stretch of highway. "That's the view," says Lorenzo Fertitta from the presidential suite at the Green Valley Ranch. "The Strip is the beach and the water...