Idaho
Mar 5 2009, AP

Three months after Marcos Salvador was hired to wash dishes at a swanky ski resort in the central Idaho mountains, he stood alongside Roseberry Road in the frigid cold and tried to hitch a ride to his last day of work.

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Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John G. Roberts, Jr., right, answers a question from Jordan Reich, left, back to camera, 20, of Gig Harbor, Wash. after speaking at the Sherman J. Bellwood Memorial Lecture Series at the Student Union...