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...apiece at the supermarket. To put some of the comfort back into apple consumption, two young California entrepreneurs are providing a rent-a-tree service that allows city dwellers to raise all the fruit they can possibly eat and also enjoy the pristine pleasures of watching trees grow, blossom and yield...
...receive redwood plaques with their names on them to hang on their rented trunks. They have full sitting, picking, picnicking and climbing rights, but are spared all the tiresome chores of spraying, propping and pruning. Moreover, as a number of young Bay Area couples discovered during the local apple blossom festival last April, there can be more to sitting under an apple tree than discovering the law of gravity...
...father, Bo Tucker, realized he had a star in the house when Tanya was eight. Ever since, he has lived off a series of construction jobs round the Southwest wherever he thought Tanya's career might blossom. "It's because of my father's blood and guts that we are where we are today," she says. It is not clear whether "we" is a superstar's first-person plural or an indication that Tanya cannot yet separate her identity from that of her close-knit clan...
Last week at the Blossom Music Center outside Cleveland, Denver drew more than 10,000 members of what one Blossom official called the "clean-shirt crowd." Although the audience ranged in age from twelve to 70, it was predominately a Middle American assemblage of young-marrieds. Part of the show was a color film of the Colorado Rockies, featuring occasional shots of Denver trotting in the wilds or swapping jokes with friends around a crackling campfire. Meanwhile, Denver stood at the stage apron and sang his own Rocky Mountain High...
...pool of potential donors because most people have two. The donor of a kidney must balance the risk to himself against the reward of saving a life. For the purposes of tissue matching, relatives are preferred as donors. Often their motivation is more guilt than compassion, guilt that can blossom into resentment when all attention is focused on the recovering recipient. Once donors become a significantly large group, a whole new sort of therapy will have to be devised...