There’s an isolated border town out on Nevada’s high-desert plains that has preoccupied my mind for some time now. McDermitt straddles two states — half lies in Nevada, the other…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, March 9, 2007 FELTON, Calif. — The Boom is bouncing around the classroom like an overgrown kid. With his bushy gray eyebrows and…