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...State, famous for potatoes, continuous snow in winter, and Ruby Ridge, sometimes seems like two states in one: the southern section, with its flourishing high-tech industries and conservative Republican politics, influenced by the substantial Mormon population that migrated north from Utah in the 1860s, and the more remote northern areas, filled with Idaho's notorious militias and survivalists. At some level, resentment of government seems to unite the Idaho population, probably because the Feds own 65% of the state's land, including national forest and wilderness areas; and this year's hot-button issue is the huge Idaho National...
...have to walk around it sometimes, but I don't mind. I'd rather have a new paved road without puddles or piles of snow in the winter," she says...
...Everything should be wrapped up early next spring, with most of the work [being] done by the time snow falls," says J. Roger Boothe, Cambridge's director of urban design...
Last week's rainstorm was highly unusual--if it had been snow, it would have been six feet. And if it had been snow, many of Harvard's buildings would have undoubtedly remained a good deal drier. Along with the drama and excitement of the nor' easter came a much more mundane occurrence: massive flooding. The University needs to take steps to both reimburse students whose property was damaged and to ensure that such leakage does not reoccur in the future...
...manager of the Wonderland dog track, but he's all smiles. Sitting in his modest office, I offer some bland questions but he fires off detailed responses. We talk about everything, from the track's former incarnation as a "Japanese-style amusement park" to the eight miles of underground snow-melting steel pipe to the "Rhode Island baby-sand" surface installed for the dogs' safety. I ask him about the state's involvement and he explains it thoroughly, all the way down to the "piss-catchers," the state inspectors who perform the urine tests on the dogs...