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Entrants in the contest for the largest morel came from as far away as South Carolina. The sport is often known as "rooming" or "shrooming"; one ace picker is Jim Goodwin, 45, a construction worker from West Liberty, Ohio, who snapped up 150 morels in a few hours. A novice might be wary of the poisonous cap. However, experts say that Morchella esculenta or the five or six other varieties of the most sought after morels can be clearly identified by their pitted, spongy caps and attached hollow stems. Chilly weather this spring has driven morel prices...
...stock picker goes public...
Fulton sold his tractor and picker to pay his $70,000 short-term debt, and now covers most of the farm's mortgage payments by renting out his land. Even though he has gone to work as a sheriffs deputy, Fulton still thinks of himself as a farmer. "I might have made it one more year, but instead of losing just the equipment, I could have lost the land itself...
...President Bok returned to his office after this year's opening exercises, he stopped to pick up some litter in front of Massachusetts Hall. Laughing, he told a passerby that his momentary role as Harvard's "head garbage picker-upper" was just another of his "many hats...
...That's the way the Second Lady billed herself after braving high altitude and Washington rain to top the national Christmas tree with a star on the Ellipse south of the White House. To crown the 30-ft. Colorado Spruce, Bush was given a lift in a cherry picker. The task comes with her job, she says: "Vice Presidents' wives go to funerals and top Christmas trees." They do not, however, light the evergreens. On Dec. 17, Ronald Reagan will perform that service...