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...west Texas, where it is always arid, farmers and ranchers are enduring the second year of drought; rainfall during the past year (4.83 in.) has been the skimpiest since 1892. There in Schleicher County, farmers during a decent season coaxed 26 bu. of wheat or one bale of cotton from each cultivated acre. This year, despite getting a bit more rain than the rest of the region, they expect their fields to yield only 6 bu. of wheat per acre, or a scant tenth of a bale of cotton...
...four varieties of tops and eight bottoms have a distinctively athletic flair. They are made of 100% knit cotton, come in 24 colors, and are modestly priced from $6 to $12. The ribbed tank tops and T shirts are available in shades that would please the Dallas Cowboys: athletic gray and olive drab. Although the bikini briefs are cut femininely high on the thigh, they sport a white elastic waistband emblazoned with the designer's name, just like men's models. And the string bikini, even in deep hues of jade or saffron, bears an uncanny resemblance...
...Lowell, Mass., graduate students bend over drafting tables inside the Boott Cotton Mills, which produced textiles from 1835 until 1955. Working with ink on translucent Mylar, one of them delineates the canals that carried water from the Merrimack River to giant turbines beneath the mills. Says Deborah Hurst, from Washington University in St. Louis: "The technology used when these buildings were built is extraordinary...
...president at Bloomingdale's, Manhattan's ultra-chic department store: "Often in tough economic times, designers lose their sense of whimsy and feel that women prefer to invest in serious clothing. But this season the clothes are perky and upbeat." Perry Ellis is showing a line of cotton and linen boat-neck tops that can easily slip down on one side to uncover a shoulder, as Jennifer Beals' sweatshirt did in the movie Flashdance...
...mysteriously, a newborn will smile beatifically when a piece of cotton impregnated with banana essence is waved under its nose, and it will protest at the smell of rotten eggs. Other infant prejudices: vanilla (good), shrimp...