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Across the farm belt last week, it was clear that another bumper crop is on the way. In Illinois, the corn is already seven feet high in spots and not close to topping out. Some corn is tasseling weeks ahead of schedule, and an early harvest is in prospect. Soybeans have also benefited from perfect weather; many plants are waist high and flowering ahead of time. Good, dry planting weather came early this year across Iowa and Nebraska, and even scattered flooding has not hurt the promise of a bountiful harvest. Elsewhere in the Midwest, it is much the same...
...great bounty of U.S. agriculture continues to be a curse as well as a blessing. As the corn rises speedily, so does a forest of new silos that signals a crop-storage problem of epic proportions. All across the corn belt, from Indiana to Nebraska and Missouri to Minnesota, a binge of bin and silo building is in full swing. Reason: by the end of summer, U.S. farmers and the Department of Agriculture will be buried under more excess wheat, corn, rice and other products than ever before in history. Last week the immensity of the surplus became clear...
...scene which exemplifies the relationship between the movie's two main characters, Simone hysterically beats George on the face with a belt, releasing her pent-up frustration at her own past abuses at the hands of her pimp. George stands there, crying, and submits to her rage and pain. When Simone stops, realizing how she's hurt him, she bursts into tears and hugs him as if he were a helpless and confused...
...state legislature hoped that coupling the higher speed limit with a mandatory seat-belt requirement would induce the feds to exempt Nevada from the 55-m.p.h. restriction. No such luck. When the Federal Highway Administration promptly announced a cutoff of road-building funds--including $66 million for next year--the state just as quickly backed off. But not without vowing to fight: the state has filed a suit against the Federal Government, calling the threat to stop funding an infringement on states' rights. It is, said Nevada Chief Deputy Attorney General William Isaeff, "like putting a gun to our head...
...Death. The protagonist is a gay New York City police detective named Pharaoh Love. Other successful challenges to the bruiser class are Sara Paretsky's Chicago sleuth, Ms. V.I. Warshawski (Deadlock), and George C. Chesbro's Robert Frederickson, a dwarf with a doctorate in criminology and a black belt in karate...