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...Five feet of snow covers the low rolling hills, and the only clues that the area is farmland are the combines and grain elevators strategically placed along the side of the road. The hills roll on and on, blending with the dark storm clouds in a ever-deepening gray gradient in which the horizon never comes. The map tells me to take the road leading directly into the darkest, grayest, coldest-looking section of the entire horizon, and I pause for a moment at the junction heading north. But I am encouraged by my scrappy little orange Sunfire...
...entrepreneur growth and to high-tech industry." But his White House shows no new intention of lifting a finger to help, not with federally imposed price caps on wholesale prices, not with anything. And why should it? California is making Bush and Cheney look smart, and Democratic governor Gray Davis' optimistic conservation initiatives look a like a waste of money and breath...
...nurses, schools can't train them fast enough to match the rate at which baby boomers are turning gray. "The shortage we have now is the worst we've seen," says Pamela Beeman, a dean of the College of Health and Nursing Sciences at Delaware. That's balm to graduating seniors like Celine Klapinsky, who will join the Christiana Care Health System hospital in July at a starting wage of $19.02 an hour, or about $780 for a 40-hour week. Says she: "They offered to pay my entire senior tuition, plus my books and other fees...
...with symbolic references. A case in point is the exquisite Woman with a Balance, circa 1663-64. A young and beautiful housewife stands at a table on which are scattered her more precious worldly goods--strings of pearls (including a rare set of "black" pearls, which are actually gunmetal gray), gold and silver coins, and boxes that presumably contain more small treasures. She gazes with rapt attention at a jeweler's balance, which has nothing in either scale; she is checking that the empty balance hangs level...
That the most notable characteristic of Japan's new Prime Minister is his haircut might not sound like a ringing endorsement. But in a country of copycat Brylcreemed coiffures, the Koizumi Perm is downright revolutionary: ample gray locks swirling high above his head and cascading down the back of his neck, brushing over his shirt collar. The rakish look of the tall, angular 59-year-old enhances his image as an iconoclast, a romantic lead actor storming the stage of Japan's crusty political establishment. As Toshiaki Okazaki, a 59-year-old whale-meat vendor, said while Koizumi campaigned near...