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...added another component to TIME Online: TIME Daily, the first foray into daily journalism in our 71-year history. Compiled by editor Jim Kinsella and his staff -- Robertson Barrett, Kathleen Hayden, Waits May and Steve Mitra -- TIME Daily offers a summary of top news, often shaped with special insights from TIME correspondents around the world. The daily service has already scored some coups: it was the first media source to report that emissaries from Fidel Castro were meeting with Cuban exiles in Madrid to broker a deal between the U.S. and Havana on Cuban refugees...
Since Bernard Malamud (The Natural) and Mark Harris (Bang the Drum Slowly) made it O.K. to get all misty about guys in funny-looking knickers, the first- base box seats have been full of writers. To cite a few, W.P. Kinsella wrote Shoeless Joe (Field of Dreams, in its film version), and George Plimpton came up with the sly and flaky The Curious Case of Sidd Finch. New Yorker sage Roger Angell wrote about spring training over and over, decade after decade, in words so fine that people who would rather have their teeth fixed than go to an actual...
...revolution. Farming 1,000 acres of rented land near Bowling Green, Ohio, he was making little economic headway, burdened with the overhead from a task force of monstrous machines with which he planted and harvested corn and soybeans. Then he went down to Columbus to hear Jim Kinsella, a Lexington, Ill., farmer who also runs a research and training center for no-till farming...
...like I was in church," recalls Sarver. "Suddenly I was aware that he was talking about me." Kinsella was standing before men who were struggling to survive. "Every year do you just keep taking your corn check and turning it over to the implement dealer?" Kinsella asked. Sarver was born again. On a bus home from Kinsella's school he began to figure how he would convert to no-till farming field by field. He did not have enough money to phase in the new methods so he went cold turkey, sold his seven-bottom plow and the larger...
Just ask John "Lumpy" Drobot, the short and squat hero of "Lumpy Drobot, Designated Hitter," by W.P. Kinsella. The day Lumpy joins his minor-league ball club, he hears the team's manager tell reporters that "baseball kind of gets under your skin." In Lumpy's case, this saying proves literally true...