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Typhoons, droughts and other natural disasters have contributed to Viet Nam's agricultural problems, but government incompetence has been the principal cause. Bureaucratic foul-ups hindered the planting of new strains of rice that are more resistant to drought, and the distribution of pesticides in areas infested by plant pests has been delayed. Rice production is declining in the once prosperous Mekong Delta. Hanoi had announced that it was willing to trade consumer goods such as electric fans for rice, hoping to induce peasants to sell their crops to the government instead of on the black market. When...
...didn't ask for seconds. Sara does get a return visit, in some of the raunchiest sex scenes in recent fiction, but it is all for nothing. She has misjudged who really has control of the magazine. Neil is on his way out, and Helene, his foul-mouthed assistant, is on her way in, exhaling the dragon's breath of women...
...points, 70-51, with just under ten minutes left to play. Behind the efforts of graduating co-captain Bob Hooft, who registered a game-high 25 points, the Crimson cut the advantage to ten with 4:35 and then again with 3:27 still remaining. However, the accurate foul shooting of Byrd and Columbia's running style soon moved the margin back up over...
Unfortunately, Dartmouth's Jim Panaggio followed his cue, as he too calmly sank a pair of foul shots to increase the Dartmouth lead to four points. Fine then took the inbounds pass with less than ten seconds left and drove the length of the court to lay in a hoop to keep the Crimson's waning hopes alive...
Junior Larry Lawrence, "the L Train" from Macon, Georgia, and the Big Green's top scorer throughout the season, railroaded the Crimson, hitting eight of nine short jumpers and one foul shot for 17 points in the first half. He ended up with 25 points on the night...