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...Napa and Sonoma counties, heartland of California's $730 million-a-year wine industry, prospects are promising for a bumper harvest this fall. Beneath the deceptively lush surface of the 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...
Perhaps "the threat or use of force," as the old formula goes, would not bring Bosnia's Serbs to heel. But proposing military targets for air strikes in the Serbian heartland might make Milosevic think twice, give his many Serbian political opponents a more persuasive voice and ease the heat on slowly strangling Bosnia. At the least, it would send a message about where the West stands. At bottom, this may not be a universal U.N. concern, but it is a European crisis and, more to the point, a Western responsibility. As such, it is also a job that will...
...Dakota might be following those directions. Should the two cosmonauts now orbiting in Russia's Mir space station need to make an emergency landing outside designated areas in the former Soviet Union, the Russians have told the U.S. State Department their destination of choice would be America's northern heartland. Washington has agreed to help. The Russians' only request: Please turn off the high-tension power lines. So if the lights go out some night in Nebraska, chances are the Russians are coming...
...move that did nothing to improve its image, New York City sent off 2,200 tons of garbage to the heartland last month in search of a welcoming landfill. Alas, the detritus, occupying 30 railcars, was rejected in three states. After a 3,000-mile trip, the bug-infested cargo wound up back home, destined for the Staten Island landfill...
Maybe something like this will come out of the president's heartland stump sessions...