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Nebraska absorbs the country; we sweat over its cornhusking fields and gas up at a service station cum grocery store cum library. The attendant is corn-fed chunky and straw-haired and even voiced. He can only pump regular gas, and when a lady from Taos. New Mexico in an Aubrey Beardsley tee-shirt asks for High Test, he mumbles an incoherent reply. Eyes in the till. Billy Graham manuals--step by step guides to the appreciation of the middle life--coexist side by side on the book racks with Reinhold Niebuhr tomes on something or other profound. Fred buys...
...time and praised by many, including Smith's friends David Hume and Edmund Burke. By the early 19th century, Smith's doctrine had conquered the academic world and began inspiring governments to unchain their economies. In 1846, for example, British reformers quoting The Wealth of Nations repealed the Corn Laws, which had kept food prices high by restricting imports. U.S. state legislatures, influenced by the new vogue of free competition, passed laws permitting any investors who met minimum qualifications to set up a corporation; previously, each corporation had to be chartered separately, and the charters amounted to grants of monopoly...
...Wilderness. An uncharacteristically cheerful work by Eugene O'Neill, this is a nostalgic evocation of a normal American small-town boyhood--the king of boyhood O'Neill might have liked to have had himself. Complete with puppy love, comic uncles, and summertime pranks, the play sometimes verges on sentimental corn. But a good production--such as this one by the BU Summer Repertory Theater is likely to be--can make it all work wonderfully, and it's worth seeing just to get a glimpse of the lighter side of O'Neill's psyche. It's hard to believe that...
...problems feeding itself. More than 80% of the country's 5 million people live on tiny farms. Agricultural techniques are generally primitive; in some areas plows and draft animals are unknown, and the unfertile limestone terrain is cultivated with hoes and machetes. When it rains in Haiti, the corn and beans flourish and the people eat. When drought comes, as it has with increasing frequency over the past two decades, crops shrivel in the arid soil and people starve. The Haitian government believes that nearly 300,000 of its citizens now face possible starvation or malnutrition...
...Corn should stand knee-high in most Midwest fields by July 4. Instead of rejoicing, though, farmers are nervously wondering whether they will be able to find markets for all the corn and grain from the huge harvests expected this year. Normally, 25% of all U.S. grain is exported to foreign buyers, who pay about $10 billion a year. Now that giant market is being threatened by a scandal involving: 1) bribery and fraud in federally licensed grain-inspection procedures, 2) suspected skimming of grain off export cargoes by the operators of grain elevators, and 3) laxity by the Department...