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...them strong opinions on what constituted a good onion: the Vidalia. Now stores from Manhattan to Miami, Los Angeles to Seattle, sell Vidalias, real and counterfeit. The growers and the Chamber of Commerce here say the real Vidalia is raised within a 35-mile radius of Vidalia. Growers who belong to the Chamber's tag program produce onions that are graded and approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and bear a tag with the trademark Yumion. The grower's name, address and telephone number appear on the tag. To accept a bag of onions without all this...
Sheik Isa's main worry centers on a religious schism within his people. The royal family, along with most of the nation's decision makers, are Sunni Muslims, but some 60% of the country, including most of the poor, belong to the Shi'ite branch of Islam. Bahrain thus is an inviting target for an Islamic revolution imported from Iran, where the Shi'ites are dominant. The island in fact was part of Persia until Sheik Isa's ancestors, who came from Qatar, drove out the Persians in 1783. Since the revolution that brought Ayatullah...
Blame for mismanagement of the Solomon Amendment, however, does not all belong to the Department of Education Trouble started in March when federal district court judge Donald A Alsop invalidated the amendment as unconstitutional because he said it violated citizens' right against self-incrimination and punishment with out a trial Alsop ordered the Department to stop implementation of the law, which would have required students applying for federal financial aid to indicate on their aid form that they had registered for the draft. Students and college officials ignored the requirement accordingly, reasoning that, even if the Supreme Court overruled Alsop...
Generations have grown up thinking of American Telephone & Telegraph (1982 sales: $65.7 billion) simply as Ma Bell. Last week Federal Judge Harold Greene took away the Bell. Greene ruled that the name as well as the company's blue-and-white telephone logo should belong to A T & T's local phone companies when they split off into seven independent units on Jan. 1, 1984. The judge also decreed that only A T & T's Bell Laboratories and foreign operations could continue using the name...
...depression following the death of a four-year-old daughter. One night in 1927, while standing on the shore of Lake Michigan, he found himself redeemed from his thoughts of self-destruction by a private vision. He told himself, "You do not have the right to eliminate yourself. You belong to the universe." Years later he explained, "I made a bargain with myself that I'd discover the principles operative in the universe and turn them over to my fellow...