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...effect has been devastating. At least 50% of the soil has oxidized and eroded, in some places exposing the barren lime rock. Buried septic tanks on Lake Okeechobee's shores have surfaced. The lake itself has receded, from a depth of 17 ft. in the 1960s to 9 ft. last year. Alligators have lost most of their eggs to artificial flooding in three of the past five years. Flooding also led to the deaths of 5,000 deer last year. The region's spectacular wading birds, many of them rarities, are equally threatened. Wood storks, for example, have...
...there was an explosion in a storehouse for firecrackers, which the Ixil tribesmen used to get the attention of gods to whom they offered sacrifices. Two boys were horribly burned. By the time Helen arrived on the scene, neighbors had already plastered the burns with a mixture of lime, wood ash and motor...
...Austrian embassy in Washington, D.C., is renowned. Other fairly easy to make entries include Novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' chocolate cookies, chocolate pepper pretzels, Joe froggers cookies (named for the inhabitants of a Marblehead, Mass., frog pond) and an inviting array of souffles and mousses, notably a sour lime mousse with strawberries. Frozen desserts vary from San Francisco ice-cream pie to a delectable grapefruit ice. As for the confection she labels "the Best Damn Lemon Cake" . . . it may just be that...
...grind: Michael S. Dukakis, Democratic candidate for governor will never forgive himself for failing the Democratic primary in 1978. It was something everyone thought he would easily ace, but he took it for granted. This lime he's leaving nothing to chance--spending days holed up on the campaigns trail, reading through the voting list over and over. All indications are that this will pay off for him, but he started in September. Unless you've done the same it's too late...
...method," Welliver remarks to the writer Edwin Denby in the catalogue. "Bierstadt did not look very hard and had a method, and de Kooning makes it up as he goes along ... I look very hard, then make it up as I go along." The idea of "sub lime" American landscape is fairly worn currency by now; there are too many generalized cliches of in stant grandeur attached to it. What saves Welliver's sense of awe at large scale is his sense of fact...