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...throughout the state has forced 7,000 Californians to evacuate their homes and has left at least 14 dead. Gov. Pete Wilson expanded his request for federal disaster funding today, seeking to make 48 of 56 California counties eligible for government relief. The state has estimated $303 million in livestock and agricultural losses so far as a result of the floods. Forecasters are predicting another storm for the Northern California this weekend...
...proceeded in a remarkably orderly manner; the notices went out by post. Even so, a bit of unforeseen chaos ensued when some highways became paralyzed with traffic. Seemingly every car and truck that could move was pressed into carrying refugees burdened with cargo ranging from pigs to pianos. Saving livestock put unusual pressures on vehicles and roads. As the exodus progressed, the Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, just north of the flood zone, turned into a latter-day Noah's ark. For three days the zoo took in streams of animals, from household pets to ponies, donkeys, pheasants and kangaroos. Custodian...
George Washington's Cows, written and illustrated by David Small (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $15), reveals in owlish, bumpety-bump verse and vivid drawings why the great man entered politics: because his livestock drove him goobers. His cows insisted on wearing lavender gowns and being sprayed with cologne (which was quite expensive); his pigs wore wigs and served dinner to guests at Mount Vernon (very nicely too, but still ); and his sheep wore academic gowns and delivered lectures. They "measured the sea with a stick./ Then, raising their hoofs in triumph, they cried:/ 'We say with a certain amount of pride...
...declares. "Few farmers have yet looked at the opportunity. They are still fixated on saving their crumbling subsidies in Washington." His answer: eliminating price supports and trade barriers and, above all, increasing the U.S. farm yield even further. That American grain, Avery says, is what can feed the livestock of prospering nations as they move to improve their diets. "The market for American farming has been and will be meat, milk and eggs, and the feeds with which to produce them." If American agriculture fails to seize this opportunity, says Avery, then in 50 years, 40 million...
True enough, the Bible has a great deal to say on the subject of zippers or their A.D. 1 equivalent. Thou shalt not lust after your neighbor's wife or livestock. Thou shalt not spill the seed that was intended for your brother's widow. Thou shalt not divorce and, better yet, not even marry in the first place but wander around single and celibate, spreading the word...