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Salt comes from dead, dried-up seas or living ones. It can bubble to the surface as brine or crop out in the form of salt licks and shallow caverns. Below the skin of the earth it lies in white veins, some of them thousands of feet deep. It can be evaporated from salt "pans," boiled down from brine, or mined, as it often is today, from shafts extending half a mile down...
Others, especially his teammates on the squad he has captained for the past year, share his admiration which lends to border on awe. Ken Plunicki, one of a strong crop of players which McLaughlin recruited during Fleming's sophomore year, described the effect that the captain had on the team during the current, disappointing season: "When everybody gets down on themselves because they're thinking about whether the season is worth it, is it really worth it, because there is so much else to do, you look at Donald raising a family and going to school and playing basketball...
...inadequacies of the President's approach stem from his failure to recognize the historical roots of the Caribbean basin's economic distress. The nations of Central America and the West Indies are suffering from a legacy of colonial exploitation that has left most dependent on a single crop--sugar--which they compete against each other to sell to the U.S. These nations lack any substantial industrial infrastructure and are net importers of food because so much of their land is either eroded or under export crops...
...month of shelling: dead black mesquite trees, torn out of the ground, lie in a vast twisted litter. Vultures like to sit in sinister profile upon the dead trees; they give the scene an eerie stylized hellishness. This particular mesquite has been the victim of chaining and spraying: crop-dusting planes swoop in low over the range and spray a chemical called TORDON 225E onto the mesquite. A year or more later, a pair of bulldozers about a hundred yards apart make their way across the same area dragging an enormous ship's anchor chain between them...
Twenty years ago, beating Yale was the annual ambition of every Harvard men's swim team Led by Don Schollander, four-time gold medalist at the 1964 Olympic Games, the Elis were top dogs in Eastern waters. But this year's crop of aquamen made that ancient history as they curbed the Bulldogs--70.43, Saturday in New Haven to clinch the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League championship...