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...capita, in the nation. As the whaling died out, the city, like most of its neighbors in the Northeast, began to focus on the tremendous textile industry. All over New England, towns like Lowell, Lawrence and Fall River sprang up around the new mills that were pumping out cotton cloth...
...easy to find. In 1970 the lowbush blueberry harvest in New Brunswick, Canada, declined by 75% from the previous year after nearby conifer forests were sprayed with pesticides that wiped out the bees that pollinate the blueberries. In parts of the Southwestern U.S., excessive pesticide spraying of Mexican cotton fields just across the border has reduced populations of two moth species that pollinate certain cactus; as a result, the cactus flowers have withered and dropped...
Grisham had a personal reason for concocting this novel legal theory. In March 1995, William Savage, an acquaintance of Grisham's, was gunned down at the cotton gin where he worked, out-side Hernando, Mississippi; the next day, convenience-store clerk Patsy Byers was shot and paralyzed in nearby Ponchatoula, Louisiana. Benjamin Darras, 18, and Sarah Edmondson, 19, have been accused of both crimes. Edmondson told authorities that before the shootings, she and Darras took LSD and watched Natural Born Killers, which they had seen countless times...
...time to plant cotton and corn has come and, in most places, gone, while farmers hunker down in their fields and crumble handfuls of soil into plumes of fine dust. Texas is the nation's leading cotton-growing state, but agronomists there predict that 50% of this year's crop could be lost, along with more than $200 million profit to farmers and producers. Prospects for the corn crop are just as barren. "Corn should be 8 ft. high by now," says Mark Miller, an agricultural economist at Texas A&M University, "but even in the best fields...
...sixth grader, attempting to become the youngest applicant for admission since Cotton Mather, was disappointed to learn he could not apply until his senior year of high school...