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...Fernando Ed, it seems, is no isolated case. Today illegally grown pot is the nation's fourth largest cash crop. Law-enforcement officials insist that it ranks just behind corn, soybeans and wheat in market value. Last year's marijuana harvest had an estimated street value of $8.5 billion; in each of more than 30 states, law-defying entrepreneurs produced crops worth at least $100 million at retail. California's harvest, worth an almost unbelievable but reasonably documented $1.5 billion at retail, led the list. Hawaii was second; its $750 million crop rivaled the sugar-cane...
...about nine for assembly-line chocolates. Ordinary bonbons are sprayed with chocolate, but chic chocs are hand-dipped to build an even quarter-inch-layer thickness. Another reason for their high cost is that they contain no artificial preservatives and can be stocked only in small quantities. Of Corné Toison d'Or chocolates, possibly Belgium's finest. Founder Marcel Jo seph Corné says, "They are to be bitten gently with the eyes closed." Perhaps. But true chocophiles mostly pursue their passion with eyes and wallets wide open. A sampler...
...public school where Ralph Waldo Emerson hasn't been replaced by tales of streetwise punks" [May 31]. Many of my students are streetwise, but also enjoy Emerson. His philosophy is applicable to the young person today who understands that with our economic turmoil "no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given...
...hustlers park on the two main roads just past the track, hawking hats and T-Shirts, cotton candy, corn dogs, tacos, pizza and Coke, belt buckles, water pistols, megaphones, toy cars, checkered flags, souvenir plates and shot glasses, necklaces, feathers, earrings and pennants. Almost everyone takes a piece of the race home with them...
...well as stories of men who had fought at Belleau Wood in World War I and the Bulge in World War II. And always there was talk of the weather, of drought and flood and tornado and sun. Many on this graduation day had left their tractors and corn planters bogged down in fields too wet to work-one more worry in the struggle to survive under God's laws...