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...takes to ship a breeding mare from Italy to Ireland and back, saving $700 on the round trip. A dozen export-import forms were eliminated, and veterinary checks now take place only at the destination. As for Sivieri trucker Carlo Boldrini, who used to spend nights in the horse trailer when frontier posts closed for the day, "stress is reduced...
...roofers claim they are getting a raw deal from the locals. "There are plenty of good guys down here working," says Michigan roofer Chester Steele, a Vietnam veteran who serves as unofficial mayor and peace enforcer in Camp Hell. He contends that workers get ripped off by trailer parks (typical charge: $800 a month for a 1950s-era trailer) and hotels ($55 a day for a room without TV or hot water). Contractors regularly skip out on them, leaving them without...
...TORNADO IS NATURE'S EQUIVALENT OF A DRIVE-by shooting -- random and deadly -- then the pair of storm systems that spun dozens of deadly twisters across 12 states, killing 25 and injuring hundreds, resembled a devastating artillery barrage. One trailer park in Rankin County, Mississippi, looked every bit the target of a heavy shelling after a twister roared through it. The storm, unleashing winds of more than 200 m.p.h., tossed one trailer 150 yds., wrapped another's heavy steel frame around a tree trunk like a coat hanger, lodged an empty refrigerator high in a pine tree and left...
Based on a novel by Richard Peck, it's about a single mom named Nora (Brooke Adams), living in a trailer park in a small New Mexico town, working as a waitress in a roadside restaurant, at once harried and patient (and wonderfully authentic) as she tries to raise two daughters. The younger of them, Shade (Fairuza Balk), narrates the story of a crucial few months in their lives. She has a busy, dreamy mind. She may moon over the romantic fictions shown at a little Hispanic theater and end up falling for the Latino boy who works...
...grocery to buy some antacid pills; he reported for work at a coal mine, only to learn that the night shift had been laid off; he picked up his work clothes at the mine, then stopped to chat with a friend; he visited another friend in a trailer park; he went home to his wife. Important testimony came from Philip Vandyke, a friend of Coleman's, who could point to the precise time of their conversation because at its conclusion he punched a time clock. Although Vandyke had no apparent motive to lie on Coleman's behalf and risk being...