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...food I look for when I do myfield work. To them its just ordinary stuff . Itreminds me of what I grew up with in Iowa. Myfather had his summers free, so what we did washave the biggest garden in the planet, and I wasthe laborer. We had heavenly sweet corn, andvarious kinds of beans and things like that--justordinary food we took for granted. I look back atthat as literally food from the goods...
...fast as the vehicles roll over the acres around Sabie, west of the capital of Maputo, destroying the mines, the farmers stream in behind, planting corn and squash, grazing goats and cows. Francisco Mucavele is one of them. For 10 years he was confined within the perimeter of the little settlement of Chavane, bounded by fear of the minefields. "We felt like prisoners in the village," he says. "Now I can go anywhere I want...
Standing among corn shoots already knee high, Francisco waves toward other fields where the telltale puffs of black smoke show mines detonating beneath the Casspir's wheels and talks of planting there too. Then he can not only feed his family of seven children but also sell for a profit. "As we get our land back, we can cultivate more and graze more cows. Then maybe we can get roads, and trucks will come to take our food to market. And then the stores and clinics will come back," he says. Already his younger children can go to school again...
...question is whether the Playboy Channel's programming is decent. Playboy lawyer ROBERT CORN-REVERE shipped a crate of videotapes to the FCC for review but never got a reply. "Nothing was done with them. They're sitting in a box somewhere," says the FCC's MORGAN BROMAN. The agency ought to look soon. Last Friday Playboy and the government concluded a three-day trial in federal court in Delaware. They expect a decision by June...
...rain fell. Water was carted for miles for livestock. In Nebraska the State University agronomist gloomily predicted that many fields would not yield over 5 bu. of wheat per acre (normal average: 15 to 20 bu.). In Minnesota they mocked Washington's crop predictions as gross overestimates. Farmers planting corn raised clouds of dust like columns of marching troops...