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With an estimated value of $1.5 billion annually, marijuana has surpassed tobacco as North Carolina's top cash crop. In an attempt to slow down the harvest, some landowners in the Tar Heel State last week began posting signs with the slogan MARIJUANA WATCH near the remote fields where pot is grown. The idea is to show that the owners are cooperating with lawmen, thereby avoiding possible seizure of their property if marijuana is found...
There is little evidence that the walleye population is near extinction. According to the state department of natural resources, which sets the safe harvest level for fishing, sport anglers caught 670,000 walleyes last year, vs. only 16,000 speared by Chippewa fishermen...
...South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu. Every spring villagers there collect liana vines and wind them into long cords. Young men then scale high wooden towers, lash the vines around their ankles and jump. A successful leap is considered a demonstration of courage -- and a harbinger of a plentiful yam harvest...
...virtually all its raw materials from Soviet producers, no small order in a country where many food products are rationed and the term quality control is not in the lexicon. The Moscow managers have imported potato and cucumber seeds from the Netherlands and have trained Soviet farmers to harvest and pack the produce without bruising it. They have taught Soviet cattle farmers that they can raise leaner beef by castrating their cattle a month later than usual and slaughtering them a month earlier. To maintain food standards and keep the supply flowing, the company has built a $40 million food...
Sometime after that family meeting, Charles learned that Matthew planned to go to the police. At around 4 p.m. on Jan. 3, a neighbor spotted Charles pulling into the driveway and going into his Harvest Road house for a few minutes. A short time later, he arrived at the office of his family's lawyer, John T. Dawley, where he spent the next three hours...