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Time was when the Midwestern grain belt had the manicured look of a suburban lawn. In summer, rows of corn lined up neat as picket fences. In winter the plowed earth mimicked swatches of felt brushed clear of debris. But as this year's planting season gets under way, an increasing number of growers are "farming ugly" -- gunning their tractors over fields ajumble with great clods of dirt and raggedy stalks left over from last year's harvest...
...burden of these reductions would fall most heavily on the Appalachian regions that produce high-sulfur coal and the 107 Midwestern power plants that burn it. "This bill will absolutely devastate my state, leaving nothing but unemployment in its path," complained Democratic Senator Alan Dixon of Illinois. The Senate version tries to help by offering incentives to plants that buy cleanup technology and reduce pollution even more than required (they would get credits that they could sell to other plants). But the Senate narrowly rejected an amendment by former majority leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia that would have compensated...
...smiling, about O'Connor. Neither does the liberal Kroc. What binds them, according to O'Connor, is camaraderie and a shared boosterism in regard to San Diego. Yet why do they do it? Part of the answer lies in old-fashioned values that Kroc and Copley attribute to their Midwestern upbringing, and O'Connor to a strict Catholic girlhood that taught "you have to give something back...
Among conspicuous victims within the past year have been an East Coast big- city mayor, a Midwestern Governor and a West Coast U.S. Senator, none of them incontrovertibly known to be gay. In each case, the official was identified as a homosexual via leaflets or noisy demonstrations. The rationale for exposing the politicians' alleged secret lives was that they were guilty of malicious hypocrisy on matters of life and death. One outing victim had endorsed legislation allowing hospitals to test patients for AIDS without their consent. Another backed a ban on funding to school programs that describe homosexuality as normal...
Welcome to the upside-down '90s. Not since collapsing oil prices sent Texas and the rest of the Southwest into a slump nearly a decade ago has the U.S. witnessed such a stunning reversal of regional fortunes. The new winners include Midwestern farmers and Rustbelt manufacturers whose prosaic products, from corn to machine tools, are in hot demand around the world. Among the losers are Wall Street investment bankers, whose earnings have plunged with the waning of the buyout binge, and defense contractors across the country, who can expect new cutbacks as the cold war ends...