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...antihunter bias [STEVE LOPEZ'S AMERICA, Nov. 13]. As a hunter, I have no sympathy for poachers. But I object to Lopez's silly and inaccurate description of events. How can he claim to be "deep, deep in the woods" when he's near enough to see a pickup-truck driver on the road? Perhaps Lopez has never been in woods deeper than Central Park. The real issue, however thinly veiled, is his distaste for anyone who hunts or is a member of the National Rifle Association. I would prefer not to live in "Steve Lopez's America." TOM WANSLEBEN...
...little machine in West Lebanon is known as a powder metallurgy press, and to most manufacturers, there ought to be nothing especially new about it. Powder presses have been around for 70 years, stamping out everything from truck-motor parts to medical equipment. Remarkably common though they are, these machines are remarkably crude. Most powder presses are great, loud, chugging things, about the size and shape of a tractor trailer and demanding the ministrations of at least 200 people to keep them running through a workweek. Retooling the presses to switch from making one component to another can take days...
...spotlights. Originally frustrated by their laborious work over a "hunk of metal," the electricians, under Tucker's passionate tutelage, came to love the piece. "By the end of the night, one of the workers thought this was the coolest thing on campus," recalls Tucker. "He went into his truck to get his camera, and spent an entire roll of film on ['Huru']." Not surprisingly, the groundskeepers of UMass Boston have had some of the most profound exposure to the artwork and to Tucker's insight on it. David Lanchester, a heavy equipment operator who's been instrumental in much...
...women." Paul Begala, late of the Clinton White House, did an MSNBC online column in which he invited his readers to look at the electoral map on which the Bush states appeared in red: "You see the state where James Byrd was lynch-dragged behind a pickup truck until his body came apart. It's red. You see the state where Mathew Shepard was crucified on a split-rail fence for the crime of being gay. It's red. You see the state where right-wing extremists blew up a federal building and murdered scores of federal employees...
Hastert grew up hoisting 100-lb. seed bags onto his father's feed truck in Oswego, Ill. After graduating from Wheaton College, he started a 16-year career as a high school teacher and wrestling coach, experience he brought with him to Washington in 1986. "Coaching is something that gives you discipline," he says. "You have to spend a lot of time working on technique and bringing people together to get things done. That's the same thing I'm doing here." Hastert's let's-all-pull-together style proved popular with Republicans in the House. He rose...