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...West Coast retailer has expanded into a 650-store monster with outlets in 49 states and Puerto Rico (a store in the 50th state, Arkansas, should open soon). And it has done this without losing cachet with its target market. Pacific Sun, says shopper Heather Brentlinger, 17, of Omaha, Neb., "has the surfer look I like...
Cheryl Kilton, 40, a pharmaceutical sales representative in Omaha, Neb., has a 2-year-old daughter and says many of her friends have also had children later in life. "We have great jobs, own a home and have no debt," says Kilton, who spent $200 on a Christmas dress trimmed in mink with matching fur shoe clips and headband for her daughter, who wore the outfit once before it was tucked away in a cedar chest for safekeeping...
...more than two-thirds of plant-based medicines are being tested in corn--a plant whose genetics is well understood. But the perils of using food crops became clear last December when the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ordered the incineration of 500,000 bushels of soybeans in Aurora, Neb. The soybeans, from a plant used in everything from baby food and margarine to ice cream, were inadvertently mixed in a silo with corn that was genetically engineered by a Texas firm, ProdiGene Inc., to produce a vaccine against pig diarrhea. "Drugs have side effects," says Jean Halloran...
...East that we were serious about their welfare. Instead, we're doling out billions to American companies to rebuild damaged infrastructure and failing to take into account another kind of damage--to Iraq's cultural heritage--that could have been prevented but cannot be repaired. JOHN JANOVY JR. Lincoln, Neb...
...country. Whether it's driven by a longing for a larger world, for post-9/11 meaning or simply for the pleasure of a silent field beneath a riotous sky, more and more Americans are falling in love with the heavens. There's Erica Block, 15, of Lincoln, Neb., who sold her horse and emptied her bank account to buy a $1,000 telescope that, she boasts, is taller than she is. There's Evan Chan, a Los Angeles tour operator who a year ago spent his free time watching TV and now--$10,000 worth of equipment later...