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Perot--who took third in every state--cast himself as the people's grain of sand, saying "I hope we can work together to make pearls in the future...
...Bush reaffirmed the pro-Baghdad approach, signing a directive in October 1989 calling for closer ties to Saddam and the continued supply of guaranteed credits to buy U.S. grain ($500 million worth were extended the next month) and technology. His rationale: Iraq had the region's largest army, second largest oil reserves, ties to Moscow that would be nice to weaken and big ambitions to be a local power. The U.S. wanted some influence -- and some export sales...
West, who grew up in Sacramento, Calif., entered Harvard at 17 after attending all-Black public schools. While at the College, a place he says "equipped and empowered him to be a Black freedom fighter cutting against the grain," West began his career as an academic activist...
...examination of his body revealed no sign of disease and no wounds beyond those that were inflicted during his exhumation. But scientists are still pondering the reason for the bluish tinge of his teeth, which were well worn, probably from a diet of milled grain products...
...transportation improved, thanks to the wheel, sailing ships and the domestication of donkeys, connections between far-flung villages and towns expanded dramatically. A flourishing international trade developed in copper ore, gold, ivory, grain, olive oil, wine and other wares. Explains anthropologist Brian Fagan of the University of California at Santa Barbara: "This was the beginning of a global economy...