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Dinda, a Brown University student, says the band is an attempt to discard old formulas and to perform music different from the "old slop you hear from every other band." Magus and drummer Brian Carpenter discovered Dinda, Voorhes and guitarist Steve Allegretto through a series of ads in a Providence newspaper in early...
Every year American farmers discard millions of pounds of potatoes that are too unattractive to send to market. Why can't this otherwise good food be distributed to the needy? That's what Ken Horne, 42, and Ray Buchanan, 40, asked themselves in 1983. The two Methodist ministers began to collect unsold potatoes from local farmers and distribute them to food centers. Since then, the Potato Project has sprouted in 47 states and has shipped a total of 56 million lbs. of spuds (the equivalent of 165 million servings) to 250 anti- hunger agencies...
...Giants, the Cardinals fought off injuries all season, curing their pitching rotation just in time to parry a secondary assault from Montreal. First Baseman Jack Clark, the only St. Louis slugger, has missed 24 games with a sprained ankle, and is a doubtful participant this week. An old discard, Danny Driessen, 36, has been cracking doubles in his place. Devoured by a man- eating tarpaulin in 1985, whirlwind Leftfielder Vince Coleman resolves to stay clear of the machinery this year. "I don't go anywhere anymore," he shudders, "without my tarp detector...
...suffer a failure of nerve, as if the pain of his protagonist were too much for the reader (or perhaps the screen) to bear. Until its sun-washed finale, 50 maintains Corman's gift for putting acute observations in a comic package. But this time out, buyers should discard the pretty pink wrap...
...fact, it does. If the U.S. shrank from its commitment to protect free shipping in the gulf, it might as well discard any pretense of being a superpower. Nor could the U.S. afford to stand by idly after the Soviets earlier this year eagerly accepted Kuwait's invitation to help protect its oil shipments...