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Farmers and ranchers across the blistered Southwest and Lower Plains have already experienced a rough spring, with no relief on the horizon. They have watched winter-wheat crops wither and die. Kansas normally produces 360 million to 420 million bushels of wheat annually; the estimate for this year is 185 million bushels. "Personally, I think those estimates are a bit high," says Mike Brown, president of the Kansas Association of Wheat Growers. "I hope they're on the low side, but I wouldn't be surprised if [the crop] was below 150 million...
...pleasing fables they learned in high school and absorb from popular culture and the media. When they graduate, these students are unprepared to promote serious change or defy the status quo because they are not even aware of serious American dilemmas. Thus, each year, Harvard produces a bumper crop of graduates ready to climb the ranks on Wall Street or in Washington, but blind to the glaring gaps between American ideals and American reality. These graduates are committed to preserving the flawed institutions they will inherit from older Harvard alumni. They will also stomp on others in pursuit...
...biggest disappointment in this crop of albums is Patti Smith's. In the '70s, with such albums as Horses, she merged insurgent, thoughtful poetry with heartfelt and jagged-edged rock 'n' roll. She's never been much of a vocalist--she has a croaky, flat voice--but the strength of her music came from what she was singing, not how she was singing it. Unfortunately, on her new album, Gone Again, words fail her. The album deals with issues of mortality (the word heaven pops up in three songs), but the endeavor is marred by one song, Summer Cannibals, which...
...this summer's crop of well-intentioned but clueless souls endeavoring to turn their drab backyards into earthly Edens, the 3D Landscape CD-ROM could be as valuable as seeds or hoes. With this instructional software from Books That Work, budding green thumbs can design their own realistic gardens on an easy-to-use computer grid, dragging and dropping into place any of 800 plants and flowers. Advanced features let users take a 3-D tour of their creations or watch the virtual gardens blossom and fade as the seasons pass. One tip: Don't add water. (Books That Work...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: A USDA report says some 45 percent of the U.S. wheat crop in 19 states are in poor or very poor condition after a dry spell which has driven farmers in the wheat-belt states to plow under their winter wheat and plant corn or other crops. Inventories of winter wheat have fallen to a 50 year low, and commodity exchanges are seeing record wheat prices. The price of a May wheat futures contract has risen to around $7.00 per bushel, up from $4.95 at the beginning of February. The shortage of winter wheat is part...