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...leader. As the dust settles from America's rout of the Taliban, the nation is barely holding together. Its implacable problems, forgotten in the brief moment of triumph, are now front and center. Warlords are trying to carve up the country. Opium is once again the No. 1 crop. And scheming neighbors are attempting to put their own guys in power in Kabul. The strain on Karzai is evident during the several days that I spend with him. The promise of foreign aid helps keep the peace, as do the American bombing raids aimed at some of his enemies...
...occupational hazard in hollywood: make a film based on real-life events and, predictably, you're going to have people grousing over inaccuracies. So it is with the latest crop of fact-based dramas. A bigger mystery: what Tolkien fans did before they had Peter Jackson's movie to pick apart...
Back in Kentucky, Jacob Graves drives out U.S. 60 a little ways east of Leafland. He stops at a historical plaque placed by the state to mark hemp's history. STATE'S LARGEST CASH CROP TILL 1915, it says. "See?" says Graves. "If we get this done, what's old will be new again." Hemp-crust apple pie, anyone...
...climbed steadily, from 320,000 when it started in September 1998 to 525,000 last year. My Generation's 3.1 million circulation, carved from Modern Maturity's 20.9 million, makes it one of the biggest magazines in the country. And Carter predicts other new baby-boomer magazines will crop...
...mats. The Matsumotos have worked in Kagami, on the southern island of Kyushu, for three generations; it was igusa that turned a poor country backwater into a modern middle-class town, one of the wealthiest farming communities in all of Japan. The farmers had a nickname for their prized crop: Blue Diamond...