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...Dust Bowl, with windblown homesteaders treading the cracked earth. The second: a glossy color shot of the same land 40 years later, showing the lush checkerboard farms of America's breadbasket. Now, as if through a strange reversal in time, the second image threatens to fade into the first. For in another 40 years, the territory could backslide into dust and despair. The Ogallala Aquifer, the vast underground reservoir of water that transformed much of the Great Plains into one of the richest agricultural areas in the world, is being sucked...
...That is no longer as cheap or as easy as it once was. Bookstores have ever less shelf space to give to slow-moving titles; warehousing such items has become prohibitively expensive. Paperbacks blink in and out of print like fireflies. They also, as older collectors have ruefully discovered, fade and fall apart even more rapidly than their owners...
...FADE TO BLACK...
BELLS GONG in the dark. Sirens wail. Lights fade in on three corpses on a stage...
...that little statuette as medicine. "I made it an unrelieved mind trip," she says. "I told him that he was going to win, and wouldn't that be wonderful after so long a time waiting for it. Talking about the Oscar was another way of not letting him fade away. When he won, I flew into his arms. He held me tight and I saw the tears in his eyes, and they told me he was overwhelmed with a sense of profound Writer Thompson happiness. 'Hell, if I hadn't won,' he said, 'I wouldn...