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...Like many of you, I worked through college. Didn't hurt me a bit. In fact, one of my jobs was unloading tractor trailers. You spend the night in North Carolina unloading a tractor trailer, and I guarantee you, you'll get up and study the next day." John Edwards, Iowa's other love child, is standing on a plastic crate in a diner in Nashua, N.H., sharing his story and giving voters a good look at his crisp blue suit and grungy, mud-caked boots. His oldest daughter, Cate, gave them to him for Christmas to help negotiate...
...patch of Interstate 270, a semirural community of cornfields and strip malls. The first, in May, hit a car that had been left without gas on the shoulder. The next, in August, hit a trailer towing a horse. In October and November, the frequency accelerated. Since Oct. 10, three tractor-trailers, seven cars and a nearby school have been struck. Last Monday a woman who lives 150 yds. north of 270 came home to find a bullet in her living room. Police refuse to use the word sniper, but Franklin County feels that menace just the same...
...everyone has bent his or her life around the danger. Bill Briggs, 56, has been driving a Yellow Transportation tractor-trailer for 14 years. On Oct. 4 he was five miles from home, listening to a cassette of blues guitarist Walter Trout, when he heard the boom, then felt glass shatter across his face. He pulled over and found a hole near the roof. When he jerked open the passenger-side door, a bullet fell to the ground. Briggs was back on the road 10 hours later. "The chances of getting shot at twice like that are like me hitting...
...always my Pappaw. Rarely effusive, he played with my cousins and my sister, Lindsay, and I in his own way. When we went sledding, his tractor rides saved us from the slog up the long hill behind my grandparents’ house. I never balked at the opportunity to drive his ole John Deere, my dream machine for the first part of my life. Since Pappaw was always mowing or towing or fixing something, I had plenty of opportunities to take the wheel...
...does appear to have one solid argument on its side: those mysterious mobile biowarfare labs. The CIA shared its findings with reporters last week about two tractor-trailer trucks seized in Iraq that it claims were designed for the production of biological weapons. The agency published a nine-page white paper on its website about the mobile labs--allegations that are very similar to charges made by Secretary of State Colin Powell in his U.N. speech on Feb. 5. President Bush pointed to the trucks last week as the best evidence yet that the intelligence wasn't overheated...