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...peaceful vineyards, however, an expensive disaster looms. Billions of microscopic parasites called phylloxeras are munching away at the roots of the grape-bearing stalks. While no threat to human health, within a decade the tiny insects could eat their way through 50,000 acres of the nation's finest vineyards. Estimates of the total damage, including the cost of replanting with Phylloxera-resistant stalks, range from $500 million to more than $1 billion...
ARMY. Standing at 18 combat divisions at the time of Desert Storm, the Army could be brought down to 10 active and five reserve divisions, totaling 797,000 troops. Its divisions, fully equipped with the world's finest tanks, armored personnel carriers and helicopters, are already superior to any other land force. Maintaining the army at these lower levels would cost $45 billion a year, against the present $71 billion...
They have lifted their voices in sacred and secular song ever since their wagon trains pulled up to the Great Salt Lake in the summer of 1847. That once small choir soon became one of the world's finest battalion-size forces (325 singers), reason enough for Sony Music to reissue some of the MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR'S top hits. The five-CD set includes hymns, Civil War songs and American standards. The choir's ringing harmonies and bright tones are perfectly suited to chorales (Sheep May Safely Graze, with its heavenly shifting of voices) or patriotic marches (The Caissons...
...discount center in the suburbs. In a sense, that is what it means -- the concept is an American warehouse of moral images, of inherited assumptions and brand-name ideals, of traditional wisdom, of pseudo memories of a golden age, of old class habits: here some of the culture's finest aspirations are on display, its handcrafted, polished virtues and a few handsome, valuable antiques. But also a lot of shoulder pads, Tic Tacs and mouthwash...
...finest of these features swimmer Mike Barrowman sitting (mistily) in a darkened room as he writes in his diary. A voiceover, recounting his quest for vengeance over another swimmer who once defeated him, is interrupted repeatedly by triple replays of his words (of his words, of his words, of his words...