Word: rodeos
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...nearly 50,000 acres, forcing the evacuation of some 18,000 people and the closure of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Last year brought some of the largest, most intense wildfires in U.S. history, including the Hayman fire, which overran nearly 138,000 forested acres near Denver, and the Rodeo-Chediski fire, not far from Flagstaff, which blazed for weeks across 466,000 acres. These epic conflagrations helped make 2002 the third worst fire year on record (after 1988 and 2000) with nearly 7 million acres burned, 21 fire fighters dead and 2,000 structures destroyed...
...acres. It is already clear, he notes, that prescribed burns have the power to modulate the behavior of big fires. One branch of the Hayman fire, for example, stopped at the edge of an area where a large prescribed burn had been conducted the year before, and the Rodeo-Chediski fire, for its part, was forced to detour around prescribed burns on forest lands managed by the White Mountain Apache tribe...
...another set of reality shows make over identities. On E!'s forthcoming Facing Fame, subjects are made to look like their favorite celebrity. On ABC Family's Switched!, a teenage rodeo queen swaps lives with a New York City girl...
...trip to Ohio was a thinly veiled attempt to put pressure on a popular Republican, Senator George Voinovich, who opposes a big tax cut without equally big spending cuts. The President believes that a few members of Congress, unlike the French, will cave. "This is not his first rodeo," says a senior White House official. "He knows how tax politics work." And if Bush doesn't get what he wants, advisers say, he will introduce another round of tax cuts in the fall, giving him a domestic political issue...
...from the freezer. But 24 had to reintroduce Sutherland to an audience that remembered him as an '80s teen star who a decade later was better known for having been dumped by Julia Roberts. In the late '90s he even dropped out of acting to compete on the professional rodeo circuit (he had learned roping for 1994's The Cowboy Way). "I took two years off," he says. "The first year was on purpose. The second year was to remind people...