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...wonder publishers are so melancholy. "Soviet-U.S. confrontation as a genre is dead," says Viking editor Al Silverman. Adrian Zackheim, executive editor of Morrow, puts the situation in the absolute terms of a bumper sticker: "Espionage is over...
...have more impact than they would if planters grew a diverse array of crops. Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee is convinced that the decline of diversity is one of the greatest threats facing world agriculture. "We may see a significant number of crops become functionally extinct," he says, "enjoying bumper crops until one day the hammer falls in the form of a blight they cannot handle...
...mattresses," the environment's guardian told her. I helped Mildred stuff the mattress back into her old Pinto, the one with the REGISTER LIBERALS, NOT GUNS bumper sticker just below the LIVE FREE OR DIE license plate. A Democrat with a solution to New Hampshire's mattress problem could win it all. I know one man who had to bury two old mattresses in his pasture, like dead cows. Anyway, in all primary seasons up to now, you would have found Gary Hart or some other left-winger with good teeth staked out at the town dump, ready to shake...
Sometimes natural disaster has a sunny side. Last summer raging fires consumed 98,000 acres of spruce around Tok in the Alaskan interior. But this year villagers are harvesting a bumper crop of morels, wild mushrooms springing up with abandon on the charred forest floor. The delicacy, which sells in specialty shops for $14 a pound fresh and as much as $200 a pound dried, is in great demand in tony restaurants. When Tok folk learned they could make as much as $20 an hour gathering morels for wholesale buyers from Seattle and Vancouver, "they went crazy," says Aaron Schutt...
...other signs of a confusion in some quarters between patriotism and conformity. During the gulf war, peace vigils were occasionally disrupted by frat-house zealots. According to a study done by a media watchdog group, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, television executives virtually excised antiwar voices from the air. Bumper stickers advised good citizens to SAVE A FLAG, BURN A PROTESTER. And the nastiness didn't end with the hostilities overseas. One of the official entertainers for the June victory parade in Washington was radio talk-show personality Blake Clark, whose theme is, "If you aren't homeless...