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...Probably the only really persistent issue is slight anxiety about my next book,” she said. “But that probably would been the case anyway...
...dorm has been claimed by a group of eight local high schoolers, so I follow the Model T of the small man in the over-worn sweater and slight facial hair down to the only other thing he has available: “the hut.” It has two lovely single beds, a gas stove, sink, fire place and stacks of wood. I run my hands over the walls to be sure the mischievous late afternoon sun hasn’t camouflaged a light switch, but no luck. The cabin lies on a small man-made lake filled...
...assemble on the aft deck and load up their kits: life jackets, 9-mm Glock semi-automatics, telescopic batons, capsicum spray, handcuffs, assorted tools, water supply, radio. The sailors climb aboard an outboard-powered tender which is lowered into the water. Coxswain Brad Walker thumps the boat into a slight swell on a 20-knot south-easterly, zooming toward the target under a blazing midday...
...when or if their stories will run plagues every journalist; a front page at 6 p.m. can be on page five an hour later. Science writer Leigh Dayton has been lobbying for her exclusive piece on koala leukemia to run; when it's mentioned at conference, someone asks with slight disgust, "Does the koala look like it's got a disease?" The piece makes it in a day later; the picture doesn't. Seeing your stories cut or killed, as Dayton knows after 18 years in journalism, is part of the job. "It's a solid story," she says...
...show of gentlemanliness, I offer to help the slightly uncomfortable teachers secure a lap dance for the divorce. In a slight downgrade of my gentlemanliness, I never return to the women, instead using my awesome reporter's notebook ($2.99; any drugstore) to talk to a stripper for the next two hours. "To someone from Minnesota we're sluts, but in Vegas this is a respectable job to the locals," says Sami, 33, who is known as the Fire Bitch because of her ability to light on fire a surprising number of her body parts. Sami says she's not that...