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...media's sporadic reports from farm country have tended to focus on floods, droughts and other disasters. But the farm crisis is as over as Barbara Mandrell. Farm incomes are at an all-time high. The median farmer enjoys five times the net worth of the median nonfarmer household. Crop prices have soared--thanks largely to the Federal Government's promotion of corn ethanol over more efficient renewable energies--and yet subsidies have as well...
...moving together, and these boats are going to fly.” The lightweights do indeed have the talent, even if it is still a bit raw. The deep sophomore class is as talented as its predecessors, and the lack of veterans gives this year’s sophomore crop more of a chance to crack into the top two varsity boats come spring.“It’s not like it’s going to be a 1V [first varsity] and a 2V [second varsity] of all seniors,” says sophomore Ben Tuyp...
Flying insect-like robots could play a big role in the future of military reconnaissance and crop surveillance. The Defense Department has been funding such research for years, and now labs from coast to coast are starting to deliver promising results--like Harvard's microrobotic fly, below, that can beat its wings 110 times per second. The bug has yet to be outfitted with a camera or a self-contained power source...
...also tapers, at its narrowest point, to a mettle-testing 23 ft (7 m) across. While the final lineup is still being confirmed, if recent years are anything to go by, spectators can expect to see lots of rising stars of motor sport - 19 of this year's crop of Formula One drivers, for example, have raced at Macau, including Lewis Hamilton, Ralf Schumacher and Nick Heidfeld...
...Until a few years ago... when under new management, a Jewish owner from Brooklyn, a Latino general manager from Queens, an African-American manager from Brooklyn-ethnic New York guys, outer-borough guys like me-the Mets began to hire some wonderful talent, and a sizzling crop of younger players suddenly materialized from the farm system. I found myself sucked into baseball fandom of the purest, most banal sort. I learned to love winning. I even expected them to win. Our playoff loss in 2006 to the St. Louis Cardinals was a fluke. Surely we would win this year...