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...corn crop, which has been decimated by high wind and hail in the last two years. "There's many a farmer that has to stand out there every night and literally guard their field--pary for the hail not to come," says Brent Williamson, principal for the 4th through 12th grades at the Harvard Public Schools...
...even worse. Russia's gone red. Again. Coca-Cola CEO Roberto Goizueta told TIME that Coke has overtaken Pepsi in Russia, a market of huge size (150 million people) and scope, erasing the 10-year head start Pepsi enjoyed as the Official Party Cola. Coke opens its 12th plant there this week, staffed by locals trained in Coke's bottling university in Moscow. It's all part of Coke's relentless push across the continents. "The conclusion is obvious," says Goizueta with his typical detachment. "Our system has terrific momentum...
...tried to imagine the 12th-semester junior down the hall--the one with the tangled hair and the Fu Manchu mustache--knocking on the door of a future Senator and saying, "If you've got a little time to devote to the search for truth, some folks in our room are carrying on an experiment in whether the experience of using marijuana is enhanced if you smoke it while listening through earphones to A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum...
Most of these artifacts date from the 12th dynasty, long after the kingdom once ruled by Snefru disintegrated in an era of famine and unrest. It was during this chaotic period that the first great wave of looting and tomb robbing ruined much of Egypt's historical treasures. The rulers of the Middle Kingdom tried to restore law and order, but the mystical union of nature, religion and state that marked the Old Kingdom never returned...
Each year the National Trust for Historic Preservation prepares a new list of "America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places." These are threatened by neglect, demolition or insensitive public policy. This time, however, the trust is adding a 12th: black churches of the South, more than 30 of which have been ravaged by arsonists since January 1995. Others on the just-released list include...