71.   Desperate for a place to live, many of the migrants built squatter homes along the steep walls of the canyons.

72.   Current building codes would not permit homes to be built on this steep of a slope.

73.   Dave Shaw, a Seattle attorney and expert cross-country skier, found the Methow so appealing he built a home in the valley.

74.   Diaz and his family built their home alongside several dozen others on a small hill peppered with ancient building stones.

75.   David, who works at Luke Air Force Base, is planning to build a home there, too, and is getting married in November.

76.   Even on normal days, tension is high around the settlements, where Jewish families have built homes on what had been Palestinian land and are expanding rapidly.

77.   Even some of the construction materials used in building the home were stolen, Salcido said.

78.   Few had the means to clear the towering evergreens, to buy supplies needed to build a home or to keep up the taxes on the land.

79.   Few homes are ever built without minor defects.

80.   Five years ago, when they first published the guide for building a home out of straw bales, they expected to sell a few thousand copies.