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...Compost Heap. The Times'snewsroom spotted the story. Next day a slim, dark-haired reporter named James McGuire visited Mrs. Majczek, listened as she told her story in broken English. The Times refused her offer of the $5,000, began raking over the forgotten files of the Lundy case, uncovered a legal compost heap...
Jacob mushrooms grow in concrete, aluminum-painted "houses" which are filled with beds of manure compost and kept pitch-dark. Lumps of spawn are pushed into the compost about eight inches apart. In three weeks fine, white, hairlike mycelia extend from top to bottom. Then a "casing" of loam is put on top and in three weeks more the first white pinheads pop out. Each bed bears well for two or three months. Then the tired manure is stripped off, sold to golf courses as a top dressing for $1.50 a ton. The mushrooms themselves, fat, firm and thick...
...certain methods tending to arouse the emotions has called forth justified criticism. Labelled with the attractive slogan, "How to get real religion", its banner has inveighed many into an active participation. Then, as soon as these innocent volunteers have entered the intricate labyrinth, another's authority is sufficient to compost their personal surrender--their setions and duties, no longer in their own control, are said to be ordained by divine will...
Parched and stinking, Bahrein Island barely breaks the surface of the Persian Gulf. European pates soon addle, uninsulated from its vicious sun. Before its troughs of rotting oysters, queasy European nostrils quail. Impervious to sun and stink, Arab traders hunker down, paddle the bubbling compost, comb it with their fingers...
...still politically conscious about other issues. In tune with its concern for the environment, Deadly also has its own garden plot and compost heap, right next door. "We grow our own flowers, vegetables and other herbs," says Broker...