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...commission also recommended resumption of military aid to Guatemala, where the government is currently keeping a much smaller leftist insurrection in check; increased military aid of an unspecified amount to Honduras, Nicaragua's northern neighbor, where U.S. troops will soon be winding up joint exercises that are scheduled to be renewed in July; and a repeal of the existing ban on U.S. aid to foreign police forces. The ban was enacted to prevent the U.S. from underwriting human rights abuses by authoritarian regimes, but it has had the perverse effect of denying security assistance to democratic Costa Rica, which...
...they spoke with touchingly awkward grace. Goodman's wife Terry, who had waited out the ordeal at their home in Virginia Beach, met her husband at Andrews with a wordless embrace. Her low-profile role had perhaps been the toughest. "She just kept on," marveled her next-door neighbor, Susan Wachter. "I don't think I could have done it. She's definitely a good Navy wife...
...mountains into the center of the city, where King Croesus, whose names is still associated with great riches, had it removed and turned into coins--the first known instance of coinage in the Western world Croesus's wealth and power rivalled even that of the Phrygian King Midas, his neighbor to the north, who, as the legend goes, ridded himself of his "golden touch" by bathing in the same stream...
...public figure these days is crazy. It's open season on all of them. There's a need for heroes and leaders, but we cut them down too readily. What you really need is more stories on the goodness of people. The press doesn't report neighbor helping neighbor. There's a great market to tell people that they're good. They hunger for that. The bottom line is that the press is both a blessing and a detriment to our system. It's a great guardian to be able to run to with...
...magazine, who also took the handsome color photographs that illustrate it. Borland's relaxed, graceful prose mixes botanical information (the intricate unfolding of shagbark hickory buds), historical oddities (the Midwestern pioneers who used large, hollow sycamores as barns or even dwellings), homely anecdotes (the willow posts in a neighbor's fence that took root and grew into a row of trees), and vivid turns of phrase (the black spruce needles that grow all around the twig "like the hair on the tail of an angry cat"). Borland's concern for conservation is all the more effective...