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...enough to make up the difference. Mostly they aren't successful, so they are sidetracked to junior colleges, not hopelessly off the N.B.A. track, but slowly lose confidence and direction. Like the Lincoln High legends before them, they will someday be back home on the sidelines watching a new crop of kids who can make a basketball do card tricks...
...immediate threat to U.S. shores. (It could, however, shift back toward land anywhere up to New England, they said.) Meanwhile, says TIME Miami Bureau Chief Cathy Booth, Gordon's lesser incarnation swamped 35,000 acres of cropland in Florida's Dade County -- destroying about half the U.S. winter vegetable crop and ensuring skyrocketing prices. About 550 homes were also damaged...
...family of genetically engineered foods continues to grow. The FDA declared five more genetically enhanced vegetables -- three tomatoes with longer shelf lives and a squash and potato that resist common crop pests -- safe for human consumption...
Official estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture put the corn crop at 9.6 billion bushels, up a staggering 52% over last year's flood-ravaged crop of 6.3 billion. As the sun rose day after day in mild, cloudless skies only to be followed by soft, moon-washed nights, the private estimates have climbed even higher, to 10 billion bushels, about 500 million beyond the old record set in 1992. Add to this overflow 2.5 billion bushels of soybeans -- almost 240 million more than the historic crop of 1979. And when cotton, rice and a hefty 2.3 billion bushels...
...this production miracle, which stretches from the foothills of the Alleghenies to the high plains of the West, combined a bit of capitalism with salubrious weather. Like their corporate brethren, farmers have learned and leaned. It took only 600,000 farmers to plant, nurture and collect most of this crop, compared with more than 1 million only 20 years ago. These survivors, almost all of them educated landowners plugged in by computers to the latest technologies of soil, fertilizers and cultivation, were ready and waiting. The terrible floods of last year had left many of them convinced that the sand...