An escalation of the Euro crisis and gridlock in the U.S. would spare no one.

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Dennis Gast, a game warden who catches muskrats in his spare time, is one of this area's most admired trappers.

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That's far more important than trying to discover one's passion in the abstract, especially when there hasn't been a spare minute to think about any of this for years.

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