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...expensive for cattlemen. He headed north "for cheap grass," to the border of Rosebud and Custer counties, just above Miles City, Mont. Mathers did not trail a herd a thousand miles across the powdery plains, fending off Kiowa and Comanche, or ford the snake-infested Nueces River. Instead, he put 200 Herefords on the Santa Fe Railroad, climbed into his blue Oldsmobile and rolled smoothly up Highway 83. He was there in two days. (Lonesome Dove's McCrae and Call took months.) Mathers bought up old homestead land for $5 to $8 an acre, quit trying to plow and plant...
...Houck was ousted from his Missouri River bottomland to make way for the Oahe reservoir. He moved to the plains northwest of Fort Pierre, S. Dak., and put his purebred cattle on grass. They were devastated in the 1966 blizzard, and so Houck decided to experiment with buffalo. Today he has 3,000 head that seem to thrive in the cold and the heat. Houck slaughters a thousand bison a year and sells all the meat he can produce. Bill Mathers doubts he will ever switch to bison. But as he stands on Horse Creek Butte and looks...
...pleas for social change, especially for women. With an increasing number of women attaining university degrees, complaints of meager career opportunities are rising. Because Wahhabism forbids the free mixing of the sexes, educated women are mainly confined to jobs in teaching, nursing and social services that do not put them in contact with men. "We have got to change," says a well- educated Saudi woman in Dhahran. "Some fear that we are like sponges that would soak up the negative with the positive from the West. But it is only by being educated and exposed that we are going...
Scientists have been developing the physical plant of Biosphere II for six years, using techniques that have enabled modern zoos and botanical gardens to put diverse habitats together in relatively narrow confines. At the same time, they have searched the world for representative flora and fauna that can re- create five different miniature biomes, or ecosystems: rain forest, savanna, desert, ocean and marsh...
...scholars is the angry tone of much revisionist rhetoric. Reformers who want to vilify Christopher Columbus because, they say, he slaughtered Native Americans may miss larger truths. "We don't study the Greeks because they had slaves and mistreated women," points out Honig. "Our job in education is to put ideals before kids." But the questions are, Whose ideals? and How should they be portrayed? -- all of which promises to inspire clashes in American classrooms for the foreseeable future...