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>Monday March 3, 2003
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>TEXAS
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>http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=957279
>Landowners who sold 200 acres to Toyota for the automaker's new truck
>plant want to make sure a house built in 1905 that sits on the site
>doesn't get destroyed when the plant is built. "We're very nervous because
>there is nothing in writing that provides for conservation of the house,"
>said Phil Ross, attorney for the Kiker and Gembler families that own the
>land. Closing on the land sale in South Bexar County is set for the end of
>March, Assistant City Manager Chris Brady said. "What happens to the land
>after that is up to Toyota," he said.
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>CALIFORNIA
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>http://www.times-standard.com/Stories/0,1413,127%257E2896%257E1215812,00.html
>When Fort Humboldt was built atop a grassy bluff in Eureka in 1853, its
>presence served to alter the North Coast's cultural landscape forever.
>"... The presence of the U.S. Army failed to accomplish much of anything,
>on behalf of either the whites or the Indians; packtrains, mail riders and
>ranches were regularly attacked by the Indians, while white vigilantes
>just as regularly raped, robbed and murdered the Indians."
>
>http://u.sbsun.com/Stories/0,1413,216~24290~1212401,00.html
>San Bernardino County Museum Association memberships begin at $30. The
>association board has the long-range goals of developing an endowment for
>museum operations, as well as making plans to help fund museum facility
>expansion and programming. The group will mount a capital campaign within
>the next two years to raise money for needed refurbishments for the
>facility which opened its doors in 1957.
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ANTHROPOLOGISTS

>http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/stories/20030302/localnews/1091251.html
>Southern drivers cut the wheel to the left before the final right turn. We
>have descended from people who steered horse-drawn wagons on a daily
>basis. So it seems fair to think that the swing-left move might be a
>residual wagon tactic. In the South, we will continue to steer left/turn
>right for many, many generations to come.
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>Editor's Note:
>In West Texas, pickup truck drivers navigate with one hand on the wheel in
>the twelve o'clock position. They signal all approaching divers with a
>very quick hand flip to say 'hello.' If one were able to observe the
>behavior in slow motion, the thumb would stay wrapped under the steering
>wheel, but the wrist would rotate backwards and the four fingers of the
>hand would rise momentarily to stand parallel and at attention. This
>salutation is always friendly and courteous in its intent. Sometimes, the
>behavior becomes a contest to see who can signal first. Drivers who are
>strangers to the region are often charmed by the 'Texas Flip' behavior,
>then co-opted into direct participation. Such participation has hidden
>peril. If drivers flip at the wrong time, they may be discovered to be
>outsiders (in recent years, some cars and trucks have no front license
>plates for identification, so a mis-timed flip will help the indigene spot
>the novice foreigner). If the responding novice signal!
>  maker is a pretty woman, a fundamental attribution error may occur in
> the mind of the native Texan. The Texan will make a u-turn and discretely
> follow the novice -- at a distance -- for hundreds miles until she breaks
> down or pulls into a gas station for refueling. Subsequent hospitality
> behaviors may ensue, especially if direct eye contact can be established.
> The boundaries of rural West Texas are demarcated by hand signals and
> cowboy hospitality behaviors, by where they are initiated, and by where
> they cease to be practiced in time and space. In far eastern rural New
> Mexico, some New Mexicans practice signal behaviors in the mistaken
> belief that they live in 'Little Texas.'
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