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...N.S.P.R.A.'s seven-month tour hits such cities as Buckeye, Ariz., and Twin Falls, Idaho, and culminates with a national championship in Reno, Nev., in early November. The tour pits cowfolk from three age brackets (40s, 50s and 60-plus) in events such as bronco or bull riding, steer wrestling, calf roping and ladies' barrel racing. The events and rules of Senior Pro rodeo are the same as rodeo's major league, the Professional Rodeo Circuit. The purses are not. On the senior tour, participants battle weekly for about $30,000 in total prize money, meaning many category winners earn...
...extending the original. "I feel just as good throwing a steer now as I did when I was 25, and believe me, the cattle are not any easier," says Dan Stringari, 54, a steer wrestler from Gallatin Gateway, Mont., who sports the unofficial rodeo uniform--denim shirt, Wranglers and boots. Some participants say the weekly activity keeps them fit. "It's either this or sit at home and die of old age, so I'm not quitting until I'm 6 ft. under," says barrel racer Linda Short, 52, from Dayton...
Bahar said the ACS will have to steer a course between “a well-defined progressive left agenda and the centrism that’s shown by the new left...
...Vero Beach landlord in July 2000 that he was a Saudi commercial pilot when he moved in with a wife and three kids. He was then taking classes at FlightSafety Academy, often patronized by employees from Saudi Arabian Airlines. He too would have had the rudimentary skills needed to steer an airliner. Says a neighbor: "My kids played with his kids. I'm stunned." He was aboard Flight 11 as well. Of the five hijackers on board, four were U.S.-trained pilots...
...NATO members may have agreed to aid a U.S. military retaliation, but all except Britain are showing signs of uneasiness over being drawn into an ill-defined or open-ended war - indeed, they refuse to call it a "war" at all. The Bush administration, of course, is likely to steer clear of the sort of frontal invasion of Afghanistan that became a nightmare for the Soviets, and instead concentrate on special forces operations along with British commandos. But even that would draw fierce resistance from the Taliban, and the U.S. has, of course, promised to punish those who shelter...