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Meager prices will push more and more debt-ridden farmers off the land. The Agriculture Department says that the number of U.S. farms declined by nearly 2% during the past year, to 2.3 million. Last week Merlin Reiber of Griswold, Iowa, watched as an auctioneer sold his farm equipment. Said he: "I'm not going to roll over and play dead. But I don't have any idea what...
...water. Just this past April, scientists from the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a Department of Energy lab in Walnut Creek, Calif., announced in the journal Science that they had for the first time identified the unique mixes of microbes that thrive in different sorts of ecosystems. In farm soil, for example, there are any number of genes that produce substances that break down plant material--rotting genes, you might call them. In seawater, by contrast, there are very few rotting genes but lots of genes that process salts. By understanding the microbial gene profile of a healthy environment, scientists will...
...cabdriver. His obsessive desire to reach the top and stay there may be rooted in a once-poor kid's inferiority complex. His father died in a car accident when he was only 6. His mother, a manicurist, remarried and moved to a dairy farm near the Catskill Mountains of New York. On the farm, he had daily chores that included milking the cows twice a day. Greenberg soon proved his talents and his competitive drive. He was a starting football player--his athletic ability earned him the nickname Hank, after the baseball great of that era with the same...
...BEAUMONT VINEYARDS: Headquartered at the Compagnes Drift farm?a former Dutch East India Co. outpost?this family-run winery, tel: (27-28) 284 9194, is famous for its spicy Pinotage, but, above all, it excels at dessert wine. Beaumont's aptly named Goutte d'Or, or "Drop of Gold," is a real beauty?a woody ambrosia bursting with honey, apple and apricot notes...
...Since his international debut 12 years ago, McGrath has seldom fit the stereotype of the obsessive sportsman, let alone the boneheaded fast bowler. Raised on a sheep and wheat farm, a straight-A student through school in Narromine, in northwestern New South Wales, McGrath was set to become a carpenter until his talent for propelling a 5.5-ounce lump of cork, string and leather carried him to Sydney and beyond. As a cricketing tourist, he's shown an uncommon appreciation for the peculiar attractions of foreign lands; to his wife, Jane, he's the rock that's stood...