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I have this idea, let’s call it, “Operation Stairwell,” whereby a private in the United States Marine Corps breaks bread with a Seaman Recruit in the Iranian Navy. They carry on a 10-minute conversation, airing personal feelings about the lingering war… The conversation is recorded in full, and
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Hurry up and wait. Freight trains are rather good at that. And when you're 16 years old, hiding aboard one in late winter, the waiting can be considerably less enjoyable than the hurrying. In late February 1943, my father, Mark King, spent nearly a week traveling from Colorado
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Few spectacles are as stirring as morning walks involving Mrs. Hargrove and her cat. That cat—whose name, I believe, is something soft and aristocratic like Percival or Archibald, though I have never been privileged to ask—walks with the deliberate dignity of a senator en route to a free
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Sometimes an adult demonstrates that education and common sense are two entirely different subjects, and often taught in separate buildings. The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office says Steven Ray Farwell, a 61-year-old teacher at Yerington Intermediate School, was arrested Friday Oct. 16 after an investigation led to allegations
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Virginia City has always seemed to me a perfectly reasonable place to hold a mental-health event, provided one does not examine the town too closely. It is admirable, then, that the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Western Nevada plans to bring advocates, families, and off-road enthusiasts to
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By the winter of 1942–43, my father, Mark King, was a capable 16-year-old cowboy. He had traveled halfway around the world, worked cattle on two continents, wintered alone in a Wyoming line shack, and ridden rodeo alongside experienced cowboys. Looking back, Dad recognized how God had opened
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We all crave our father’s endorsement… Heart surgeon Dr. Kelly once acknowledged to his toxicologist daughter, “Honey, you have saved more lives than I could ever heal.” That became the young Dr. Kelly’s culminative day… When I was attending the University of Oregon, one of our track stars,
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In the quiet little town of Fernley, where the desert wind whispers secrets to the sagebrush and a man can still lose a whole afternoon arguing with a fence post, the North Lyon County firefighters got called out one Friday afternoon to settle a dispute no reasonable soul would have
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It's a unique type of entrepreneur who can build without creating anything, and Nevada, a land of opportunity, has sometimes provided the public with this extraordinary phenomenon. According to the Lyon County Sheriff's Office, Joshua Quinton Carradine, 49, and Angela Bell Carradine, 61, were arrested Oct.
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In Nevada, there's nothing more certain than the arrival of another traffic study. Give a committee a highway, a growing industrial park, and sufficient automobiles. And before long there will be maps on tables, arrows pointing in several directions, and men and women explaining that the solution is
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When Mark was a little boy, one of his favorite possessions was a record player. Some records told stories about cowboys, and somewhere in those stories a dream began. Mark wanted to go West. He wanted horses, open country and whatever mysterious quality made a cowboy a cowboy. By 13,
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It becomes my good fortune to team up with the inimitable Tina Cole in presenting Mark Twain’s Extracts from the Diaries of Adam and Eve. The performance is scheduled for April in Lincoln, California, so we might be calling upon you, our gentle reader, to help move Adam along,