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By this time of year, fields in the Imperial Valley, which straddles the California-Mexico border, should be bursting with ripe melons ready for shipment to markets around the U.S. Instead, 95% of the fall crop has been lost and much of the rest lies rotting on the vine. Harvests...
The agent of disaster is a 3-mm (one-tenth-in.) insect known to scientists as the poinsettia strain of the sweet-potato whitefly but to farmers as the Superbug. Millions of these voracious insects have spread over the Imperial Valley, massing on the undersides of leaves and sucking plants...
The first hint of a visit by fruit flies is invariably met with quarantines . and airborne-insecticide spraying campaigns. The new Superbug has no effective native predators in California, and pesticides are largely useless against it. If it continues unchecked, Imperial Valley could be put out of business for months...
Being Ronald Reagan's Vice President left Bush no choice but to cater to the California operatives who turned the White House into an imperial palace and presidential events into Hollywood extravaganzas. But he escaped whenever he could. While Reagan fled Washington for the mountains north of Santa Barbara, Bush...
Cold Mountain was not a place but a man, an 8th century Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty who quit the imperial court and retired to a mountain community of Buddhist monks and hermits. There, for the rest of his life, he wrote verses (strict in form, four couplets to...