Word: cactuses
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...Roger Meyer, owner of San Diego's Valley Vista Kiwi Farm. Coming soon: Cuba's mamey sapote (which tastes like a cooked sweet potato), the yellow kiwi (smoother, less tart than the green type), and the jackfruit (fibrous, fleshy, richly flavored). Then there's the Vietnamese dragonfruit, a crunchy cactus that one gourmand called a "psychedelic pink-and-lime-green hand grenade." Snapple is using it in a new "smart drink" line called Elements, but the real thing is also "going to be tremendous," says Meyer. Not as promising is the durian of Southeast Asian, which the farmer says "smells...
Gonzales has a 40-acre farm in Durango, but half of it is covered with cactus, and the beans he grows earn him less than $5 a day. "With six children and my wife, it is not enough." He was in debt 50,000 pesos--about $5,000--and could not pay even the interest on his loan. "I was thinking about coming to the U.S. for a while. Finally, I told my wife, and she said, 'If you can do it, get it done.'" His only other choice was to sell part of his land, which would make...
Reubens is said to have a house in the Hollywood Hills that makes the cartoony Gary Panter set from Pee-wee's Playhouse look like Martha Stewart's place. It's supposed to be jammed with toys and kitschy knickknacks and surrounded by a cactus garden he planted himself. "It's sad-scary. Even telling you this, you're thinking, 'Funny and colorful.' No. It's scary," he says. He's going to take it apart, get rid of all the junk, de-Pee-wee it, maybe make it a place for an adult. Then again, with all his other...
...past week, the crack of the bat has again been heard in the Cactus and Grapefruit leagues, and spring training, if not spring itself, fills the air. As always, there is the heady talk of the preseason, the look at new signees and new prospects. Look hard this year; you may not see America's pastime for a while. The owners are likely to cause trouble when the bargaining agreement expires at season's end. A long lockout may mean the end of baseball as we know it, while retirement may grab other greats, like my hometown hero, Tony Gwynn...
...girls' common room in Weld 42 is colorful and fully decorated. Besides the couch, the girls have a comfortable white chair. Chili and cactus lights are strung across the ceiling. Pillows, posters and fabrics are scattered all around; on one wall is an enormous Dirty Dancing poster with everything but the title in French. Opposite the poster are pictures of male stars plastered on closet doors--the "wall of beauty," they call...