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...coast guard. Local bureaucrats had tried to halt construction in the valley, had subpoenaed the residents because they did not use electricity, had withdrawn permits because the group was building with recycled wood and had tried to arrest them without even looking at their blueprints for sanitary and ecological compost privy structures. But the warrants and injunctions now dangle inactively and lives in the valley continue with a quiet sense of victory...
...Washington Post is an ordinary American paper that willed itself to be better. It still carries much of the standard dreck-lovelorn columns, horoscopes, beauty hints-as well as 25 comics. But to this compost heap the Post has added solid and penetrating reporting and an engaging flair...
...heavier elements. Stars born more recently have more of the heavy elements produced by their predecessors. Those currently forming in interstellar dust clouds can be expected to have significant proportions of the atoms produced in celestial forges. Says Thaddeus of the clouds: "We can see the lovely fertilizer, this compost heap just sitting there waiting to be consumed in star formation...
Instant Tomatoes. All this does not mean that Americans are no longer enthralled by gadgets and gimmickry. More than 20,000 Rotocrop "Accelerator" compost bins were sold last year at about $40 each, and sales are expected to more than double this year. The bin is merely a 3-ft.-high plastic cylinder, specially ventilated for turning garden and kitchen wastes quickly into compost. Students at the University of Miami enjoy almost instant tomatoes hydroponically grown by pouring liquid fertilizer into baskets filled with wood shavings outside their dorm windows. "Tomato rings"-wire-mesh cages about 4 ft. wide...
Childhood endowed Ernst with a rich compost of obsessions. His father was a fiercely authoritarian Roman Catholic, an amateur painter who taught in a school for deaf-mutes in the Rhineland town of Brühl. Little Max briefly persuaded this eccentric sire that he was the child Jesus. Memories of this sort underlie Ernst's most notorious thrust of anticlerical wit, a spanking Madonna entitled The Blessed Virgin Chastises the Infant Jesus Before Three Witnesses (1926). When his baby sister was born and his favorite bird, a pink cockatoo, died on the same day in 1906, a whole...