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I’m Bob Schieffer and it is one of those ‘Say It’s Not So 그렇지 않다고 말해줘요’ stories. The winner of the Tour de France 프랑스와 주변국을 주파하는 장거리 자전거 경주, American Floyd Landis, has tested positive for using banned 금지된 drugs. We’ll start there tonight, then we’ll cover these stories.

 

Israel mobilizes 동원하다 thousands of reservists 예비군, 보충병, but says it doesn’t plan to widen the war beyond Lebanon. I’m Lara Logan. I’m Kelly Cobiella with how $3 a gallon gasoline is pumping new life into an old oil town. And I’m Richard Slazenger. Your kids can learn to appreciate classical music by playing video games. No kidding! This is the CBS Evening News with Bob Schieffer.

 

The higher, the better

 

In working class Midland, Texas, high gas prices aren’t hurting Tony Farmer’s sales, they’re actually helping them. He can’t keep luxury gas guzzlers in stock 재고로 갖고 있다. “If gas is $4 a gallon, I think everybody around here will be buying 2 or 3 Escalades <자동차 이름> Cadillac Escalades.” That’s because President Bush’s hometown is a big oil producer.

 

And with crude at nearly $75 a barrel, good times are back in west Texas. Neighborhoods and banks are sprouting up 급속히 성장하다, downtown streets are getting a facelift 외부개장. And there are more jobs than people to fill them. In the last year, car sales have jumped 23%. Permits for new homes shot up 50%, pushing the overall economic growth in the Midland area up 11%.

 

Oil workers are in such demand that George Batista left an entry-level 초보적인 job at Merrill Lynch. “Money talks 돈이면 다 된다, right?” With overtime, foreman 현장주임 Gerry Arnold, will make $120,000 this year. “In the process of getting the house, new vehicles…”

 

There’s a saying here in Midland that every oil boom is followed by another 4-letter word, bust 파산. And you don’t have to look far to find signs of the last big one. Empty buildings are scars from the mid 80s when oil crashed 추락하다 to $9 a barrel. Oilman 유전 경영자, 석유 업자, Don Sparks, survived, but saw his friends go bankrupt. He says, this time, not everyone’s getting rich.

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