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...southerners home...is a genuine aching and evidently almost constant need to re-experience themselves it is this need that I have noted only rarely in Texas. Texas is very new--still very new--and it has always been urgent, intemperate, and barbaric...The cattle kingdom was not the cotton kingdom: it had no refinement, no architecture, and no leisured class--certainly no leisured ladies. Even now, few Texans slow down to look at their energy is far more phone to the masochism of overwork than to the sweeter masochism of nostalgia, a preference that has weakened them literarily while...
Hans Steinke conducted their experiments with cotton-topped marmosets, South American monkeys that are known to develop lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system, when they are exposed to two viruses of the herpes family. The researchers reported in the British journal Nature that they inoculated 42 of the animals with a vaccine made from killed herpes saimiri viruses, then exposed some of the immunized animals and controls to live, cell-free viruses. Most of the non-immunized monkeys developed malignant lymphoma and died of the disease. The immunized animals remained healthy...
Some Government agencies, he argues, give perverse incentives to export scarce goods like wheat and cotton, and to export credit, which allows rich countries to buy U.S. goods at less than market prices. Last year Reuss suggested the creation of a congressional price-supply ombudsman to act as watchdog over rising prices. Finally, he would finance a tax reduction for low-to middle-income Americans by, among other things, closing loopholes such as untaxed capital gains at death, hobby-farm deductions, and tax-exempt interest on bonds...
...Senate if Jackson resigned his seat to campaign for the presidency. Not now: the revolution in the House against the seniority system has handed him, at age 45, an opportunity to block proposed rises in the cost of food stamps and to urge increased production of milk and cotton while keeping a floor under farm prices...
Meanwhile, the Tanzanian economy is sorely beset by failing crops, worldwide inflation and soaring petroleum costs. Because the government paid such low prices for basic agricultural commodities, farmers last year smuggled more than $50 million worth of sisal, cattle, cotton, cashew nuts and corn across the border into neighboring Kenya, where prices were higher, thereby depriving Tanzania of vital foreign exchange. The country's hard currency reserves, in fact, have fallen from over $100 million a year ago to only $11 million at present...