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...Cooperative. Although production costs are criticized as being excessively high, the Alentejo in some ways has become a showcase of the revolution: 50,000 new jobs were created−thanks largely to millions of dollars loaned by the government for equipment and wages. Says Joaquim Pinto Parulas, a tractor driver who used to have to leave his family to work in Lisbon: "Now I am here all year and have plenty of work. The salary is not as high as in Lisbon, but we are happier on the land...
Later that afternoon I hitched a ride on a tractor back to Urgup, gathered up my things from the youth hostel, bought a pair of outrageously colored mittens for my sister, and caught the 6:00 bus to Konya...
...Some families are believed to own North Carolina dealerships, which supply them with cigarettes free of the North Carolina tax stamp. Their trucks are equipped with two-way radios and escorted by scout cars on the lookout for police. On a typical run, the cigarettes are loaded onto giant tractor-trailers capable of hauling as many as 60,000 cartons at a time. As they near their destination, they are transferred to smaller trucks to reduce the risk of detection and the loss in case of seizure. Once in New York, some of the cigarettes are sold at cut rates...
Those pleasures are quite extraordinary in range. Beyond conventional horse and auto sports, golf, tennis, hang-gliding and rafting down rivers, they include elaborate re-creations of Civil War battles; tractor "pulls," in which contestants vie in hauling 30,000-lb. loads over a 300-ft. course; "plant digs," organized by state forestry commissions and environmentalist groups, in which families are encouraged to rescue trees, shrubs and wild flowers from soon-to-be-bulldozed sites; hunting Indian arrowheads and searching for old bottles (two of Jimmy Carter's favorite decompression pastimes) or turtle eggs...
...ants, as their name implies, have searing bites that can kill small animals and raise painful blisters on humans. Farm workers often refuse to enter fields infested with fire ant mounds, which often rise two or three feet above the ground and are sturdy enough to stop a tractor...