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...China some households are now bringing in more than $5,000 a year. Best of all, the new prosperity has produced a new resourcefulness. In Henan province, several groups of peasants banded together earlier this year to do what had long seemed unthinkable: buy their own ultralight aircraft for crop spraying. Buoyed by such success stories, the party Central Committee has promised that households may continue enjoying the fruits of the "responsibility system" until the end of the century...
...Democratic candidates, pushed to their limits for months, could experience "significant emotional and physical problems with the letdown after the campaign." This "after-the-battle phenomenon," as Stroebel calls it, "has been widely observed in terms of how stress makes us sick." But politicians are tough, and the current crop of presidential candidates are no exception. "These people are self-selected," Stroebel ventures. "The ones who are not strong enough have already disappeared or never got into the race...
...places. They help shrimp farmers determine how much feed to use, and the government has begun installing them in the offices of the country's 69 federal Senators. The legislators will use the computers to keep track of everything from the size of last year's soybean crop to the names of the children of their most influential constituents...
...front of me compare Pete Rose, on the field running but not playing for the Expos, with George Sisler, who played for the St. Louis Browns in the '20 s. And I had always considered such '50 s luminaries as Stan Musial and Ted Williams the cream of the crop. I bowed to their 120 cumulative years of baseball knowledge...
...general, the oldtimers are impressed with the freshman crop. "The freshmen have really surprised me," says Maspons...