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...have no ceiling fan, then how about a Dove-Tech corn-burning stove? It's too early to tell for certain how well this really works -- only 4,000 have been sold so far -- but it sure seems to solve a lot of problems: the energy crisis (we're the Saudi Arabia of corn), the pollution crisis (the kernels burn far cleaner than wood, coal or oil), the farm crisis (Dove-Tech will even burn moldy surplus), the trade deficit (American corn, not imported oil), the deforestation crisis (chop corn, not trees), the safety crisis (corn isn't dangerous...
...upside-down '90s. Not since collapsing oil prices sent Texas and the rest of the Southwest into a slump nearly a decade ago has the U.S. witnessed such a stunning reversal of regional fortunes. The new winners include Midwestern farmers and Rustbelt manufacturers whose prosaic products, from corn to machine tools, are in hot demand around the world. Among the losers are Wall Street investment bankers, whose earnings have plunged with the waning of the buyout binge, and defense contractors across the country, who can expect new cutbacks as the cold war ends...
Even where crops were not affected, the cold struck a blow at agriculture by snarling transportation. On the Mississippi River, barges were frozen north of Cairo, Ill. The sub-zero temperatures hit midway through the biggest single delivery of corn -- 11 million tons -- to the Soviet Union. Some 6 million tons had already been shipped from Gulf ports, but the rest was still in storage in elevators along the Mississippi...
...Lunch. I have some low-fat yogurt, mixed with wheat germ. And some corn chips, to keep up my strength. Still feeling great. I think I'll go to the MAC after my 2 p.m. section...
...Monitor story told of a local farmer who had been pestered by bears getting into his feed corn. Had to shoot two last year, he said. A fish-and- game-commission biologist said, "Rather than have farmers kill the bears, we would rather have sportsmen utilize the resource." You get used to blood- sport bureaucratese; "utilize,"or "harvest," is what you do when you get something fuzzy and four-footed in your sights. As in most states, New Hampshire's fish and game policies often seem to be caught in a time warp, perhaps in the decade of the 1820s...