Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when I think of Halloween, my thoughts also turn to our late great president, Richard Milhous Nixon. For three straight years, from when I was eight until I was eleven, my trick-or-treating itinerary had Nixon's rambling ranch home as its high point. For all the children of Saddle River, New Jersey, the Nixon residence was a Halloween must...
...Helmer's two-car garage isn't much to look at, but the modest structure set amid the cornfields and ranch homes of exurban Freeland, Michigan, harbors a revolution. Inside the garage and spilling over into what was Helmer's living room is the Northlane Math and Science Academy, a new kind of public school. In these unconventional quarters, Helmer, a veteran teacher and school administrator, and two other teachers are attempting to guide 39 students, ages 6 to 12, toward a better understanding of their world via a very active brand of learning...
...staff of the Independent had a little more variety in its open house fare--two bottles of Coke, one of Diet Coke, a Diet Sprite, one bag of Cool Ranch Doritos, one bag of Oreos and six pizzas donated by the paper's advertiser, Dial-A-Pizza...
...swim and is addicted to C-SPAN, Panetta stays close to his hardscrabble roots -- literally. He tries to get back to California twice a month, where his idea of relaxing is to climb onto his Ford tractor and work the ground on his family's 11-acre walnut ranch in the Carmel Valley. "He gets unspeakably cranky if he doesn't get back regularly," said an associate, who joked that aides have taken up inner-office collections for airfare when Panetta has been in Washington too long...
...foundation has distributed $7.7 million to support a variety of liberal causes. Along with The Normal Heart (subject: AIDS), Streisand is also producing a TV movie about Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer, who was booted out of the military for being a lesbian (Glenn Close will star). She donated her Malibu ranch to an environmental conservancy and put up for auction millions of dollars' worth of art and furnishings that she had collected since the '60s. "I don't want to spend so much time being preoccupied with objects," she wrote in the Christie's catalog that offered the items...