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Since 1980, farmers have struggled against shrinking markets, debts, tumbling land values and overproduction. Farmers in the Southeast have been robbed of their thin cash flow by capricious weather. Elsewhere, America's gigantic agricultural machine heaps up more grain and fiber than the world can digest. U.S. taxpayers foot the bill...
...people with tattered memories. The riddle of her origins, she discovered, lay in the North Carolina coastal plain around Edenton, Creswell and Columbia. Her research filled file drawers, boxes and shelves all over her house, and has finally been collected into a 350-page manuscript. What started as a digest of her own genealogy ended up being nothing less than a family tree of all the descendants of the slaves -- bearing 21 different surnames -- who once worked on one of North Carolina's grand plantations, Somerset, just out of Creswell on Phelps Lake...
Despite the disappointing performance of new Coke, sales of the many other Coca-Cola drinks have been so strong that the company's share of the $26 billion-a-year U.S. soft-drink market has grown this year to 39%, vs. rival Pepsico's 29%, according to Beverage Digest. A year ago Coke's lead was 29% to 23%. A move to license the Coca-Cola name on designer clothing, which began badly last year, now seems to be humming along nicely. Most important, Coca- Cola is reaping benefits from its biggest image change of all, a controversial $1.4 billion...
...example, it is inefficient to produce pork in desert areas like the Middle East because pigs thrive best on the same scarce fruits and grains that nourish man, whereas cud-chewing animals (cattle, sheep, goats) develop on high-cellulose brush plants that are hard for man to digest. The meat from pigs was thus considered not only bad to eat but "bad to think," hence the prohibition of eating the flesh of pigs, which were said to be dirty. According to Harris, pigs become dirty only when left untended, and so they get a bum rap. A pig prefers...
...issues that cause people to go out there and vote are the conservative issues: buses, taxes, abortion, defense," said Viguerie, 52, the direct mail maestro who founded the Conservative Digest...