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...trouble started when the jet stream, which usually carries water-laden air from the Gulf of Alaska toward Canada, dipped south toward Hawaii, then headed for the coast with a burden of subtropical moisture. Like a conveyor belt gone haywire, it pitched one storm after another across the beleaguered West. In Northern California, 32,000 people were evacuated, more than 7,000 homes damaged or destroyed, and thousands of acres of farmland flooded, including some of the Napa Valley vineyards...
...greater safety, several companies have devised methods of sealing the individual capsules to make them tamper resistant. Eli Lilly has developed a tiny belt of gelatin that binds, like a piece of tape, the top and bottom halves and makes it difficult to open a capsule without tearing it. Sterling Drug uses sound waves to create a kind of spot-weld on capsules of its Panadol pain reliever. Johnson & Johnson says that it too studied new methods of sealing capsules but decided that none was completely secure...
...cause of the F.C.S.'s red ink is no mystery: the farm belt continues to suffer from its worst depression since the 1930s. Squeezed between low crop prices and falling land values, many farmers are sinking deeper and deeper into debt. By the end of 1985 borrowers were unable to make either interest or principal payments on $5.3 billion in F.C.S. loans, or 8% of its $66.6 billion portfolio...
Ponder, brought up in a family of 14 children on an Oklahoma farm, was introduced to education in the 1930s in a segregated country school in which two teachers taught eight grades. Fifty years later, he had a doctorate in economics from Ohio State University under his belt and was a director of the United Negro College Fund. Riding high in academic circles as the man who had built the endowment of South Carolina's Benedict College from an inconsequential sum to $20 million, Ponder came to tackle Fisk. He found a faculty that deserved medals for even bothering...
Half-blind, senile, and emaciated from heart disease, Andrija Artukovic seemed oblivious as U.S. marshals bundled him aboard a JAT airlines flight to Yugoslavia last week. Only after staring hard at an illuminated sign in the plane that read FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELT in Serbo-Croatian did Artukovic, 86, speak. Said he: "Now I know where I'm going." Indeed, his destination was a long-delayed date with justice. As Interior Minister in the puppet Nazi state of Croatia during World War II, Artukovic was known as the Butcher of the Balkans and held responsible for the murder...