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This is no photo op in a wildlife park for tourists on safari. This is Mugie Ranch, a commercial livestock operation in Kenya's Laikipia district, about six hours north of Nairobi. Some 14,000 sheep and 1,000 cattle graze here on the open grasslands, tended by 200 ranch hands. Barely a mile from the feasting lions, herders are bringing cattle and sheep into their nighttime pens, raising clouds of red dust. The herders whistle at their dogs, which are on the alert for lions--and for leopards, which go to the nearby water hole at night to feed...
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...
...together to train," says Martha, who assumed control of the training center as her husband moved away from coaching--apparently for good. "It is extremely important to train together regularly to have guidance and common ground so everybody is not coming from different places." The gymnasts invited to the ranch begin to bond as a team and get expert advice from Martha and a handful of specialists. The coaches scrutinize and refine techniques on each of the four apparatuses--balance beam, bars, vault and floor exercise...
...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...