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FloJo decided to retire a couple of days ago. And I, for one, think that she retired at the right time. She's leaving the track world on top. She would have been 33 years old when the 1992 Olympics rolled around...
...Brown, the U.S. became a "food deficit" nation, producing 196 million tons of grain and consuming 206 million. The 100 or so nations that purchase food from us are being supplied out of our dwindling reserves, now down to one-third of our stocks of just two years ago. The world's carry-over supplies have been reduced from 101 days of food consumption to 54 days, which is just about enough to keep the global food pipeline filled. "If the drought goes on," says Brown, "we could see a frantic scramble for supplies that would shake up the world...
...them. Day and night he looks for damp, heavy clouds. Mostly he sees bright moon and sun. "It is the dryest I can remember," he says. He has been there 58 years. Then there are the ominous, almost eerie, changes in the weather. One night three weeks ago, he was in shirt-sleeves, tending his Herefords. Within 60 hours the temperature fell from 86 degrees F to -13 degrees F, an unheard of plunge of 99 degrees. Schmeidler coped. Two calves were born in the middle of a freezing night. He got them into a draw, pulled some dead grass...
Actually, this passage did not spring from Rushdie's imagination: similar accounts of Muhammad's temptation were recorded a millennium ago by Ibn Sa'd, al-Tabari and other authoritative Muslim historians. Today's Islamic scholars, however, do not consider the story authentic. Like the section dealing with the scribe Salman, this episode is seen by Rushdie's critics as a blatant attempt to undermine the Koran as the word...
Last week the Warsaw weekly Odrodzenie published a secret wartime report produced by the Polish Red Cross and uncovered two years ago by a historian in Britain's Public Record Office. The report set the date of the murders between March and May of 1940, more than a year before the first German troops arrived. Polish officials, who presented the document to a joint Soviet-Polish commission investigating the Katyn massacre, had become increasingly impatient with Soviet procrastination...