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The reporter for The Washington Stakeout waited with his videographer outside news show studios in D.C. Sunday, ready to ask three national leaders some pointed questions that the TV hosts had not. After appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger stopped for questions91. The reporter, Sam Husseini, asked the governor [...]

Wind sweeps the North American High Plains, drying up the scant rain water30×31. But there is water enough for short grasses to flourish, and over the ages they have fed the hardy buffalo, whose massive herds “darkened the plains32”. ”[The High Plains is] almost wholly unfit for cultivation,” wrote Major Stephen H. Long [...]