Word: nut
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Barely a mile from Yamit, at the cooperative farm of Moshav Sadot, the Sinai's sandy hinterland has been transformed into a verdant cornucopia. Tomato, eggplant and pepper plants, mango and lichee nut trees are nourished in long rows by painstaking drip irrigation. Collective farmers like those of Moshav Sadot are demanding at least half of the estimated $2.2 billion-or 13% of the 1981 national budget-that Israel has set aside as compensation for the Sinai settlers. But even that will not console all of them. Says Ella Weizman, 31, who sits tensely with her husband Vito...
...last summer's drought in the producing states. The impending sandwich crisis may be averted, however. From Texas, which also helps fill the oil gap, comes a substitute spread that sticks to roofs of mouths as fondly as the real stuff. Made from organically grown glandless cotton nut kernels mixed with 15% peanut oil, the American nut butter is higher in protein and lower in calories than peanut preserve. The Madeleine & Charlotte's brand, available in chunky salted and creamy unsalted varieties, is already selling in West Coast supermarkets...
...interesting sidelight: co-captain KIM BELSHE is a maple-nut purist and refuses to compromise her well-cultivated tastes, while MARGET LONG and PAT HORNE can be counted upon unfailingly to demand oreo with Reeses mix-in and coffee with Heath bars, respectively. NANCY BOUTILIER and FRANESSA HALL, much less predictable and more adventuresome (curiously paralleled by their court play) will down just about any combination...
...endorsed the Citizens Crime Watch in Dade County, whose members call police when spotting a crime and "armed with pencils and notebooks ... jot down details." You may prefer to have a notebook by your bed when some drugged-up nut kicks down your door, but I'll stick to my .357 magnum...
...clamp down on crime, the islands will remain helplessly vulnerable to the soaring cost of jet fuel, which is the main cause of the rising air fares. Local officials fear that Hawaii may become a resort only for the very wealthy. Says Paul DeDomenico, president of Hawaiian Holiday Macadamia Nut Co.: "Some people say that tourism in Hawaii depends on the rich. That's wrong. It depends on the middle class...