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...foreigners). Mesquite evidently is a native, but drought and overgrazing of the land apparently have encouraged it to spread until it has become an epidemic. Years ago, the Indians of the Southwest lived happily with the stuff. They used mesquite for fuel, shade, food (cakes made from the mesquite bean) and even diapers, fashioned from the bark...
...like the bean in the nose story," Wacker said. "A mother gave her son money to buy a pound of beans and told him not to put them up his nose, thus giving him the idea of doing it." "Sicking out is learned behavior," he added...
...thick, spongy concoction he relishes. The White House is laced with vivid red, green, gold and white decorations. There is a giant bunch of mistletoe in the foyer, a 19½-ft. Douglas fir from Spartansburg, Pa., and the gingerbread house in the State Dining Room has a jelly bean path to the door...
...soon as the man in the gray flannel suit began turning up in denim and sneakers-with no loss of prestige. The absurdity had clearly become utter by the year now ending: it was the year in which the President of the U.S. had to resort to the jelly bean for a symbol that set him apart from other folks...
...players at a top-flight invitational tournament. Normally only two Crimson members attend,but with the depth on this year's squad, twice that number were asked to play...The rest of the squad travelling to Maine today have sugar plums dancing in their heads--a stop at L.L. Bean is expected for last-minute shoppers...Team member LILI PEW received an innovative Secret Santa gift at dinner Thursday night when four Kirkland House residents inhaled helium from balloons and sang her Christmas songs in high-pitched voices at dinner...