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...sheepmen gathered at dusk outside the meeting hall in Mertzon, Texas. They wore cowboy hats (each hat distinctive, matching the weathered face) and belt buckles the size of a Roman's shield. They stood in dusty boots on the scrubby grass and drank strong black coffee out of plastic cups as the night came on. The ranchers bantered in the sidelong West Texas way, good-humored insult frisking and woofing just at the edges of the talk, like a sheepdog nipping at the fleecier pleasantries. But shadows moved across the landscape...
Even so, Baby Boomers can be found quietly agitating for change in small, direct ways. "They are on the local school boards, the neighborhood committees, the grass-roots movements," says Atwater. A striking example of grass-roots success is Mothers Against Drunk Driving, founded by Candy Lightner, 40, after her teenage daughter was killed by an intoxicated motorist in 1980. MADD is largely responsible for toughening the drunken-driving laws and raising the drinking age in 38 states. Arlene Joye, 35, took a $15,000 pay cut when she left her job as a director of a pay-TV subscription...
Three of the new beefs are from crossbred animals. Brae comes from a conventional breed (Black Angus), but the herds are fed differently than most cattle. Developed by Fred Grant, a former banker, and named for his farm Windabrae (Scottish for windy slope), these cattle graze on grass for the first two years of life and are then fed a diet of high-quality silage and beer. Grant uses no growth hormones or other chemicals, and the meat contains 84% less fat and 43% fewer calories than regular beef. Cuts ordered by TIME from the Brae Beef Shop in Stamford...
...Miles, whose product is sold at Healey's Market, has been raising beefalo for four years. His animals are given no hormones and are fed whole- grain corn because consumers did not like the tougher, grass-fed variety. His beefalo was indeed juicier and more tender than the Chenango meat, which comes from cattle that graze on grass and are given spring water and supplements of mineral blocks and hay. A small roast purchased from Healey's was slightly dry, even though it was cooked at 300 degrees F, as suggested; stew meat needed much more seasoning than conventional beef...
...motorcade, and the cream of Grand Rapids society turned out, checkbooks at the ready. New York Congressman Jack Kemp made a less elaborate entrance: he arrived at the Midway Motor Lodge on the outskirts of town late one night and was lmet the next morning by grass-roots Republican activists with toddlers in tow. Although the next Republican presidential nominee will not be chosen for more than two years, Bush and Kemp find themselves already engaged in a lengthy scramble for delegates in Michigan...