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...nice to see a President mixing it up outside the Rose Garden. Clinton's body language says, I wish I had two more hours to spend with you; Bush's says, I can't wait to get home. Bush brags about the searing, dry heat at his remote Texas ranch, where he will spend most of August hanging with his heifers. (Real men don't go to Maine.) The softie Clinton will once again mooch a house off friends to swing among the swells on Martha's Vineyard. There must be some middle ground between these two. Bush is promising...
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, there's something that should perk up his interest in environmental issues. Welcome home, Mr. President, there's cow doo-doo, as your daddy used to say, in the water. Bush's weekend ranch is on Rainey Creek, which runs into the Middle Bosque River. About six miles away is the North Bosque River and two counties over is Erath County, home to at least 250 factory dairy farms called CAFOs, for confined-animal feeding operations. The CAFOs milk as many as 2,000 cows a day, and the county has about 110,000 dairy...
...heat in north-central Texas. Especially since the drought started. The President plans to spend his vacation on his ranch near Crawford, a no-traffic-light town. Mayor Robert Campbell says they have been told to expect Bush and his attendant media horde for 21 to 23 days...
...place to live if you're a foreign employee of the biggest, most profitable corporation on earth. The people who oversee ExxonMobil's gas fields in the province are generally housed in a company-built neighborhood called Bukit Indah. It is a fenced-off and fortified oasis of ranch-style homes and green lawns, a place where kids ride bikes, carefree, on tree-lined streets. There are swimming pools, tennis courts and a nearby golf course. Weekends bring barbecues or softball games. And in the evenings, residents watch satellite TV, the latest episode of Friends sometimes interrupted by the faint...