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Decades of misuse have left the earth spent and barren; today only 2% of Haiti is forested. The rape of trees began in colonial times with the export of hardwoods, used for the production of everything from dyes to ships. These days trees are the peasants' only real cash crop. A muddy brown ring surrounds Haiti's coast as the topsoil erodes and dissolves into the turquoise Caribbean, leaving behind what amounts to tropical desert. Reforestation efforts are outpaced by the country's demand for charcoal, a critical fuel in the urban areas...
Last summer's drought has produced not only a stunted harvest but also a toxic side effect: a bumper crop of aflatoxin, a fungus-based, cancer-causing corn contaminant. It has turned up in livestock feed corn (although not the sweet corn so dear to the American palate) in nine major corn-producing states. The Illinois Department of Agriculture says a third of the crop samples tested show aflatoxin above permissible levels. But by blending the current crop with grain from uncontaminated past harvests, the corn can be used. Moreover, the Food and Drug Administration has cleared...
...contamination reduces what is expected to be the smallest per-acre corn harvest since 1970. The U.S. corn crop is just 4.55 billion bushels, down 36% from last year...
Remember, as this year's crop of candidates shows, don't get too attached to any one activity. Not only will it prevent you from studying, it will handicap your efforts to accumulate activities and positions and keep you from going outside and pressing the flesh...
This year's crop of candidates is unusual in that it includes two seniors. Traditionally, the council chairman has been a junior, who steps down to become an elder statesman member during his or her senior year...