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Allergies in February? Record pollen counts in March? Blame it on--what else?--El Nino, the warm patch of Pacific water that has played havoc with the world's weather for months. Thanks to an extremely mild winter, trees across much of the U.S.--including maple, alder, cottonwood and oak--are budding two to three weeks early, filling the air with their irritating pollen. Add torrential rains, which have produced bumper crops of wildflowers and grasses in the Southeast, along the Gulf Coast and in Southern California, and you have the makings of what some experts predict will...
...eternity of walking the earth in blue jeans that are three sizes too small and have permanently dysfunctional zippers. Lesser offenders will be sentenced to wear bell-bottoms, acid-washed cut-offs and other stylistic abominations. The 1,000 workers who lost their jobs will genetically alter the cottonwood tree so that it bears unlimited blossoms of ready-to-sew denim. Having no raw material costs of significance, they will seize the machinery of production and produce quality blue jeans for the world...
STEVEN HAMMOND (I) 1601 Cottonwood Valley Circle South, Irving...
Besides offering brew-on-premises services, The Modern Brewer sells equipment for home-brewing and operates its own brewery. Local yuppie restaurants like the Cottonwood Cafe, Redbones, Gargoyles and East Coast Grill carry the brewery's final product...
...calling on their medicine men. "Western medicine has its limitations," observes president Zah. Last week 69-year-old Mark Charlie carried two orange toolboxes filled with crystals, arrowheads and other totems into a canyon at Red Rock State Park to conduct a "blessing way." He lighted a fire of cottonwood, chanted prayers and read the ashes. When he emerged, he promised the park would be safe. At week's end there were no new cases of the mysterious illness. But no one was sure whether the blessing had taken hold or whether it was simply a lull before the evil...