Article: No grocery, $5 haircuts - and the Bush ranch.(USA)

Byline: Francine Kiefer Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

CRAWFORD, TEXAS -- The White House bills the president's month-long retreat to his Texas ranch in Crawford as his "home to the heartland" tour. Some reporters jokingly call it "home to the wasteland."

True, Crawford is little more than a crossroads on a drought-stricken prairie, bereft of even a grocery store. From afar, it's hard to imagine why the president of the free world would spend so much time in the middle of nowhere and in temperatures that, in August, intimidate even the local scorpions.

But up close, nowhere becomes somewhere - a place with a distinct ...

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