There was a time when a young man without mule experience would have been the exception.
A former assistant United States attorney, he joined the tribunal because he was tired of locking up young American drug mules.
I stopped in the parking lot before going inside, and watched two young women riding their mules between rows of horse trailers and venders selling harnesses, saddle pads, and mule-themed T-shirts.
Young men handling donkeys, mules, horses and camels pace Petra's ancient streets from dawn until dusk, exalting the benefits of an 'air-conditioned taxi' or 'Bedouin Ferrari'.
"Beach boys" in T-shirts, shorts and flip-flops served iced Shanghai Mules to young Chinese businessmen and lit Cuban cigars for the wan Europeans lounging on canopied beds.
Apart from the fact that, instead of hiking up on my own, I'd followed a young park ranger and a mule that was carrying my backpack, and that I'd also brought along, at various people's insistence, a two-way radio, a ten-year-old G.P.S. unit, a satellite phone, and several spare batteries, I was entirely isolated and alone.
Two Democratic senators say they will hold a forum in the district of Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa, to pressure him after he said that some young illegal immigrants were drug mules.
There were a few tourists, but most in the crowd were clearly Wall Street workers: men in pressed khaki trousers wearing brightly colored badges that identified them as traders, young women in skirts and mules, older women in jackets and stockings, men in suits and ties.
A little more than 60 years ago, when he was still a young man, my dad shot a mule deer while hunting in northwestern Colorado.
On the morning of October 7 the first rescue party left Salt Lake City with 16 wagon-loads of food and supplies, pulled by four-mule teams with 27 young men serving as teamsters and rescuers.
