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...harboring vain hopes that crops that sprout so effortlessly in Illinois would do the same in semiarid Montana, which gets less than 15 in. of rain annually. They are all gone now, tiny homes fallen in, schoolhouses vanished, everything blown away by the same winds that lofted the sandy soil as far as the Atlantic seaboard in the 1930s. A few of the homestead titles are held by descendants. Mathers sends lease payments to places like Florida and California...
...that was swept away by bad government policy and greed. Homesteading was a tragedy in most of the plains, pitting small farmers against the relentless weather. It was no contest. But then the government compounded the problem -- and still does -- by offering crop subsidies, and those who broke the soil became manacled to a marginal existence. Some still hang on, but time runs against them...
...Ellis Island was a paradox, a place where dreams bumped up against bureaucracy, it was no less a place where one of the most powerful currents of American life flowed by. Between 1892 and 1924, 12 million immigrants first touched U.S. soil there. Forty percent of all Americans can look back to an ancestor who passed through its doors. Abandoned more than three decades ago, Ellis Island reopens its doors this week as pure, potent symbol. After a ; seven-year, $156 million restoration, the most expensive single refurbishment in the nation's history, the main building has been transformed into...
...formally asked the Pentagon to send over copies of any exchanges of letters or oral agreements with gulf governments. That includes not only Saudi Arabia and Kuwait but also Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, all of which have agreed to base U.S. warplanes on their soil...
...nonnative plants, including banana poka and ornamental ginger. The banana poka was imported in the 1950s by a Japanese gardener, and has since spread its vines over 16,200 hectares (40,000 acres). Other exotics were introduced in the 1930s in an attempt to conserve water and stem soil erosion. Now biologists fear a time when the native plants will be completely gone from places like Haleakala National Park...