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Robyn Hallam, 33, was a perfect candidate for the new, streamlined IVF. Unable to conceive naturally with her husband Tim, a grain farmer in Hopetoun, Australia, Robyn tried fertility drugs to no avail. As the couple prepared to undergo traditional IVF, they were offered Trounson's new approach. "We were told that there'd never been a baby born through this procedure," Robyn recalls. "We thought, 'What do we have to lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fertility with Less Fuss | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

Soldiers have been given small plots of land to produce much of the meat and vegetables on sale at the farmer markets. The Youth Labor Army, a paramilitary force of conscripts, devotes most of its time to farming. Since civilians were pilfering up to 75% of food shipments, soldiers now guard deliveries. The army's construction company, Union de Empresas Constructoras, is building tourist facilities in Varadero and Havana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raul Castro: Fidel's Brother Sets Up Shop | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

...when cotton, rice and a hefty 2.3 billion bushels of wheat are counted, it is no wonder that usually taciturn agronomists and economists turn lyrical over the continuing capacity of this nation to astound itself with the production of staples. "It is just truly remarkable that farmers could bounce back from the floods and replenish the coffers like this," says Keith Collins, the USDA's chief economist. The exuberant poet-farmer Michael Carey of Farragut, Iowa, says it this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amber Tsunamis of Grain | 11/7/1994 | See Source »

...fertilized by the water, strange stories seemed to spring up overnight. In Liberty a farmer was forced to conduct a submarine cattle drive through snake-infested floodwaters in order to get his herd onto higher ground. In Kingwood a man chased from his house by rising water returned by boat the next day in the hope of finding his missing dog; not far away, the dog -- very much alive -- was bobbing like an apple in 18 ft. of water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flood, Flames and Fear | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

...guess that's OK, too. But when the Farmer's Almanac predicts an even harsher winter this year each of the last two, you know damn well that anti-freeze and a good shovel come first, hopes of human kindness a distant second...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: A Winter's Tale | 10/22/1994 | See Source »

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