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...even potentially. The band's considerable heft and impact reside where they properly belong: in the group's driven, likably demented music, with its passages of unexpected lyricism and its lyrics full of muted menace, in which a sidelong threat can turn, with a twist, into a punch line. The best R.E.M. songs have a kind of intellectual aftershock, and maybe that's what Stipe means when he says he can sense a quake. It's only another song coming...
Neither side is ecstatic about Baker's gradualist approach, and the hard- line Likud government of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir does not want to concede anything of substance. But Baker's hint in testimony to Congress last week that the U.S. may urge Jerusalem to deal directly with the P.L.O. rather than with "moderate" West Bank Palestinians (who can never be found) may eventually force Shamir out of his bunker. Baker "was rather astute," concedes an Israeli diplomat. "The fact that Baker is clearly not eager to play a central role in our crisis may actually cause Shamir...
...help anxious cooks, the USDA and other Government agencies have toll-free hot lines for consumer questions. Some requests are a bit exotic. "Did we really have to throw out the whole roast just because my daughter-in-law mistook a daffodil bulb for an onion and sliced it over the meat?" asked a worried caller. Yes, replied the hot line, the bulbs are toxic to humans. Other questions indicate a lot of basic ground needs covering. Two samples: "Can spaghetti sauce left open on the counter for three days hurt me?" and "Is it O.K. to eat groceries that...
...chickens sold to consumers are tainted with salmonella bacteria that can cause food poisoning if the birds are not properly cooked. Yet only 0.5% of chickens are rejected by inspectors. Some of the contamination apparently occurs right under the eye of inspectors, who observe each chicken on the production line for one to three seconds. High- speed eviscerating machines that rip out intestines sometimes spew feces and stomach contents on the birds. Splattered carcasses are hosed down and put in tanks of chilled water but still may become infected...
...Although the town's cooperative grain elevator still has access to a working railroad spur, weeds surround the tracks. Reason: the Kyle railroad has added a $750- per-car surcharge to the standard rate, forcing the cooperative to haul its grain 17 miles by truck to a main railroad line...