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...rapped in about five layers of clothing I trudged through the Arctic chill blowing along the Charles River, looking for the site of MIT's third annual luau. I knew I was getting close when I saw a car parked on the curb with a large bumper sticker that said, "Aloha spirit. Don't leave home without it." I quickly made my way toward the warm glow emanating from Walker Memorial Hall where I was greeted with the brimming smiles of friends from back home, tropical flowers, and beautiful Hawaiian music...
...families, 1,263 people, deep in the countryside southeast of Bamako. There are still no paved roads, no electricity, no running water anywhere in the district. But with help from its CMDT-sponsored village association, which bought insecticides, oxen and a weighing machine, the families regularly harvest bumper crops. Mali's Producers' Union, a rarity in Africa, negotiates with CMDT to set prices for the farmer, and the village association receives block earnings. Extra profits are pooled, and so far N'Tjinina has bought two water pumps and built three primary schools, paying the three teachers' salaries too. "Before...
...that has played havoc with the world's weather for months. Thanks to an extremely mild winter, trees across much of the U.S.--including maple, alder, cottonwood and oak--are budding two to three weeks early, filling the air with their irritating pollen. Add torrential rains, which have produced bumper crops of wildflowers and grasses in the Southeast, along the Gulf Coast and in Southern California, and you have the makings of what some experts predict will be the worst allergy season in 20 years...
Propositions have remained popular; they have made politics matter in California. They are debated over all the channels of communication: they have spawned flashy billboards and commercials in prime time, slogans on buttons and biting bumper stickers on the endless stream of cars on the freeway. Taking numbers alone as an indicator, the proposition has grown in importance, as the last two elections have brought 23 measures for voters to consider. In 1996 alone, proposition votes have legalized the medical use of marijuana (Prop. 215), and ended affirmative action (Prop. 209), while the 1994 end of basic education and health...
Stone says that Texans are so proud of their state that "there's a bumper sticker that says: American by birth, Southern by luck, Texan by the grace...