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...Santa Fe Railroad, climbed into his blue Oldsmobile and rolled smoothly up Highway 83. He was there in two days. (Lonesome Dove's McCrae and Call took months.) Mathers bought up old homestead land for $5 to $8 an acre, quit trying to plow and plant wheat and barley, and gently coaxed back the grass, which now ruffles in the restless wind, somehow surviving where the nation has its coldest winters and hottest summers...
...Lauren Barley, a first year B-School student said that many students assumed that the alarm was a practical joke because "a lot of times before final exams someone pulls the fire alarms...
...understand why this nation spends so much time hyping the Super Bowl. It really doesn't make a difference who wins. America isn't football; America is hops, barley and wheat. That's right, beer...
Single malts are the original Scotch whiskies. They are made from malted barley in copper-domed pot stills at 101 distilleries scattered throughout Scotland and are aged for at least four years in used sherry or bourbon casks. When combined with cheaper, less flavorsome grain whiskies, they become the blends that most consumers think of as Scotch. A quality brand, like Chivas Regal, may be 65% malt, with whiskies chosen from 40 different distilleries...
...Barley passes muster with the British crew and later with the more suspicious contingent from the CIA, but not before protesting, "I thought the Cold War was supposed to be over." Back in the Soviet Union, seeking out the woman who had forwarded the presumptive secrets and trying to get at their source, he encounters glasnost and perestroika everywhere he turns. One Moscow literary type wonders, "When will they start repressing us again to make us comfortable?" Another informs him, "We have no more problems! In the old days we had to assume that everything was a mess...