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...WHITE YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID He's a genial Texas version of the devil. Dressed in black, holding a cigar and a glass of scotch, flashing a wicked smile that makes him look like Gary Busey's smarter brother, White is the bad boy of Blue Collar TV. In this short (41 min.) set, he makes the usual public issues of private parts, honeymoon tiffs and a persistent fan who cornered White and wouldn't shut up ("He raped my ear"). The material is just O.K., but the salesmanship is expert. He's a natural-born charmer with just...
Phantom pain was a daily topic at OT--occupational therapy, the whittling porch for amputees. I made my first friends there. Most of my neighbors were half my age and from different backgrounds, small-town boys who had passed up college or blue-collar trades for a military life. I was urban, overeducated, untattooed and distrustful of uniforms and blind patriotism. But I soon discovered that I shared something with those soldiers larger than the differences in our biographies. We were men struggling for identity. The psychological scars of amputation ran deeper than those from conventional wounds...
...Advocates argue that early introduction into the world of white-collar work offers young Americans a far better chance at navigating this fast-moving, skills-oriented economy...
...home prices and flattening salaries--which makes the real estate game more relevant than ever. (HGTV has practically become a financial channel, with shows like Designed to Sell, Buy Me and My House Is Worth What?) We've moved from a manufacturing to a service economy, and the white-collar icons--bye, wheelbarrow, hello, laptop--seem aimed at the buyer willing to shell out $29.99 ($10 or so more than the old edition...
...flights tend to come only once a week. When they do, it feels like Christmas - mail from home is the only thing that keeps the soldiers at Maizan going. Today's haul saw troops whooping over new Sony Playstations, games, Oreos, cigarettes, Cheese Whiz and even a flea collar for Beebe, the camp dog. Sergeant Florian Barrie, from Watertown, New York, walked off with three cases of Mountain Dew sent by his mom and a friend. Expensive? Yes, but it's these little things that make life bearable in Maizan...