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...Some of the money came from stocks. But most was borrowed against homeowners' record $6.7 trillion of equity. Home has never been sweeter. "It's good to invest in your house, to fix it up," says Patricia Chavez, 40, who lives with her husband and three children in Moreno Valley, Calif. The Chavezes just borrowed $20,000 against the house, partly to pay off high-interest credit cards. "The price of homes going up has truly benefited us. Otherwise, we'd be drowning," she says...
...year Adams turned 14, he visited the Yosemite Valley and was given his first camera. As a young man, he worked as a custodian there and took long hikes through the mountains. "I know of no sculpture, painting, or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of the granite cliff ..." he wrote in his autobiography, adding that he wanted to establish Yosemite as "a sanctuary." For much of his life he fought to protect the places he loved, using his photographs as a lobbying tool...
GEORGIA Gorge Aggression Two Russian combat planes crossed into Georgian airspace and bombed the mountains on the border with Chechnya, Georgian officials claimed. Film from the Pankisi Gorge, a valley in the northern Caucasus Mountains, showed large craters on a hillside and dead sheep, said to have been killed in the strike. Russia denied the allegations but accused Georgia of sheltering Chechen terrorists. The U.S., worried that Pankisi could harbor al-Qaeda activists, has sent soldiers to Georgia to train antiterrorism forces...
...exploited the favors of starlets for decades, but they had a front office with a back bedroom. Russ was on location. With his crew of guy pals. And few nooks to nuzzle in. But his lust would not be dammed. During a break on the set of "Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens," he had a quick, volcanic dose of Kitten. They returned to the set, with, as Russ relates, "Miss Natividad out of concern, choosing to quiz the filmmaker: ?Do you think anyone knew what we were doing?' 'Sure,' RM replying blithely: 'When you came back...
...legend created around him. Ebert, in his 1973 essay, had written admiringly of the director's stripped-down means of production: "It isn't so much that he operated his own camera as that he also carried it." And what do we see in "Beneath the Valley"? A shot of Russ, carrying his camera up a mountain. Actually, since this is one of the last shots in Meyer's last feature film, it has in retrospect the tone of a distant wave goodbye from a grizzled old friend...