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...pull of wanderlust, taking with them strong opinions on what constituted a good onion: the Vidalia. Now stores from Manhattan to Miami, Los Angeles to Seattle, sell Vidalias, real and counterfeit. The growers and the Chamber of Commerce here say the real Vidalia is raised within a 35-mile radius of Vidalia. Growers who belong to the Chamber's tag program produce onions that are graded and approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and bear a tag with the trademark Yumion. The grower's name, address and telephone number appear on the tag. To accept...
...worked at Asarco for 18 years: "I've lived around here all my life and I'm not concerned about any health hazards. It's a lot better than it was 50 years ago." But Darcy Wright, a Tacoma homemaker who lives a mile from the smelter, worries about raising her four-month-old son. Says she: "Somehow I'm going to have to provide him with a protected area." Summed up Ruckelshaus, who stressed that he alone will make the final ruling: "The only way I know how to do it is to open...
...withdrew its troops from Southeast Asia in 1973, the toothy smiles between Peking and Hanoi gradually turned to frowns. Today, says a Chinese official, the relationship is one of "rifles to rifles and artillery to artillery." Nowhere is that hostility more evident than along the 800-mile border between the two countries. TIME Peking Bureau Chief David Aikman was among a group of Western journalists who made a rare trip last week to that tense frontier. His report...
Pingmeng (pop. 660) is a narrow town of one-and two-story houses shoehorned into a valley in China's southern Guangxi Autonomous Region. The main street, only half a mile long, culminates abruptly at the banks of a picturesque stream. There an abandoned customs house and a flagpole flying the red-and-yellow Chinese flag are the only reminders that this is the border. During the past three years, Pingmeng's residents have become victims of China's bitter feud with Viet Nam. Five people have been killed and 38 wounded by Vietnamese fire. In addition...
Tevatron should help right the transatlantic balance. Like Fermilab's existing accelerator, in whose tunnel it was built, the new machine is a giant four-mile-long circular particle race track, capable of whipping protons to within a shade of 186,000 miles per sec., the speed of light. When these high-velocity particles strike a target, for example, a metal bar, they shatter its component atoms, resulting in a burst of subatomic debris. Some of these particles are so ephemeral that they survive for only minute fractions of a second; from the trail they leave in detection devices...