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Recently Posted American Stories
A little Scary
Eric Gray worked nights as a flight attendant, so he could take pharmacy classes by day. His family pitched in to keep him in college. Five of them lived on $22-thousand dollars a year. Eric faced a hard choice. Get insurance or eat. The family opted for food.
Eric Gray got his Phd. But just days before he could take a job that would provide him with insurance coverage, he learned his son, Eric, jr. had cancer. After one hospital stay, two weeks, the bill was $43-thousand dollars.
Devil’s Tower, Church vs. State
One man’s rock climb could be another’s cathedral. 23 Native American tribes hold Devils Tower National monument sacred. In recent years their services have had to compete with noisy climbers. National Park rangers tried to help, steering climbers away. Most left. Frank Sanders did not. “If it’s going to be closed for one set of people, then we should have another week where its closed to everyone, but Frank Sanders.” Native Americans have been coming to Devils Tower for 12-thousand years. Is it protected by the Constitutional guarantee of religious freedom or should the climbers be left alone, exercising their right to keep church and state separate? The Indians feel there are plenty of places to climb. Not enough to look up to.
Job Saver
Jack Copley saw cutbacks coming. That was his job, reviewing budgets for a telephone company. There were 53-hundred empty desks around him. He figured his work, too, might disappear. One thing he had learned. Not to be a victim. Copley set out to find Bell Atlantic a new source of income, enough to maintain his pay. For all the hours Jack worked, he didn’t even make minimum wage. His daughter made more baby sitting. But he bombarded Bell with ideas. One stuck.
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