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...studied the pattern of soil erosion in the Patzcuaro basin, an area of southwestern Mexico that was a center of pre-Hispanic civilization. Sediment samples from the lake revealed that erosion rates were at least as high before as after the Spaniards' arrival. In fact, erosion appears to have fallen off after the conquest. The conclusion: a return to traditional farming methods is no guarantee of a return to Eden...
Worse, the recovery has not yet brought much help to the poor -- quite the contrary. The number of people qualifying for food stamps has fallen sharply after previous recessions ended. But it has jumped 40% in the past three years; in December, after 21 months of recovery and six months of rapidly rising production, food-stamp qualifiers reached an all-time high of 26.6 million, or 10.4% of the total population. Economists generally still expect output growth of about 3% this year, up from 2.1% in 1992. They had better be right...
...wife and five children. Four days later, other trekkers carried his emaciated body, his nostrils still plugged with ice, off the mountain on a primitive bier of branches. At least 50 people have frozen to death along the 26-mile route. Some of their bodies and those of fallen pack ponies are visible along the eerie moonlit trail; spring will reveal the rest...
...Capella Freeze Clause: No one may found a new a Capella group, until an older one has fallen out of existence. There may be no "theme" groups. For the purposes of this treaty, an a Capella group does not only mean a close-harmony vocal group that sings without accompaniment, but any ensemble that can sing "House of Blue Lights" with a straight face and a clear conscience...
...Certain pieces which have traditionally fallen later in the week will need to be rethought," Nathans said. "We need to get away from assuming orientation ends after the first few weeks...