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Many agricultural products are becoming scarce. Although the government quadrupled the price of milk to reduce demand last November, both fresh and powdered milk are nearly impossible to find. Meat is generally available but too expensive for most tables. Even the country's largest export crop, coffee, has been endangered by mismanagement. Some 6,000 workers were dispatched last month to the northern part of the country to salvage what they can before millions of pounds of unpicked coffee beans rot on the ground...
...doctors, psychiatrists, engineers, tax consultants and stockbrokers. Black businesses, large and small, are sprouting like mushrooms. The South African Black Taxi Association, for example, has increased its + membership fivefold, to 45,000, since 1983 and last year made an abortive $75 million bid to take over the country's largest white-owned bus company. Last month the black-owned Soweto Investment Trust Co. acquired PepsiCo's independent South African subsidiary for $2 million...
Black-owned shopping centers are fast replacing the corner groceries and market stalls that until recently were the main stores catering to township residents. The new $2.8 million Lesedi City mall, east of Johannesburg, the largest yet built in any urban black area, houses 53 black businesses, including a supermarket, video library, disco and off-track betting parlor, as well as the local witch doctor and herbalist. Says Lesedi City Developer Gray Thathane, 56: "That's the march to freedom...
...luge and bobsled seem to attract the largest number of Olympic eccentrics, many of whom have found the open-minded governing bylaw about nationality conveniently accommodating. For New Yorker George Tucker, a physicist born in Puerto Rico, Calgary actually offered a chance to improve. At his Sarajevo debut in 1984, Tucker shed alarming amounts of skin bouncing off the wall. "I was the luger who dripped blood," Tucker says. The next ( summer he recruited Muniz, who had schemed to represent Puerto Rico as a kayaker. "Misery loves company," explains Muniz. Argentine Ruben Gonzalez, a chemist, claims yet another distinction...
When you read a book, what matters in the largest sense is not what you read. The information becomes outdated, the writer converted, the reader cold and dead. What matters is holding a book, seeing them line up one against the other, realizing that they are heavy, like concrete, like stone. What matters is realizing that books are not only the monuments of the past, but that they are monuments of us, that they will take our living, breathing place, and that they will assume our space when we have gone...