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...corn and milker of cows presents Woofner as another psycho-alchemist trying to turn a metaphor into a 14-karat gimmick. The point is made admiringly by one skilled fancifier to another. After all, the charlatan, like the artist, exploits illusion and a sense of mystery. Behind the plow or on the road, this has always been a risky business. The author's father once blamed his son's troubles on the need to "unscrew the unscrutable." He might have asked, How're you going to keep them down on the farm after they've seen satori...
...solidly backed by Socialist President Francois Mitterrand and Conservative Prime Minister Jacques Chirac. Nonetheless, the French government has been forced to admit that radiation levels from Chernobyl were much higher than originally thought, and some farmers in the eastern part of the country have had to plow under tainted lettuce and cabbage crops. On Wednesday, Paris announced that five workers at a reprocessing plant at Cap de la Hague had accidentally received from .7 to 18 rems of radiation over their bodies. Five rems a year is the maximum exposure considered to be safe...
...breaks a leg and has to move in with his brothers and sister. The Learys are a close family of bottle-cap manufacturers who play a private card game called Vaccination and can boast of an inventor grandfather who had high hopes for a motorcycle that could pull a plow and a hybrid flower that closed in the presence of tears. "Florists will be mobbing me," said the old man. "Think of the dramatic effect at funerals!" Sister Rose is so organized that she alphabetizes her kitchen so that the allspice would be stored next to the ant poison...
...invited students to participate on the CRR when even this year's seniors were still in high school, no undergraduate has any reason to know that the CRR even existed, much less that it was boycotted. The College cannot expect undergraduates to take time out of exam period to plow through 16 years of history to decide whether they want to continue the boycott...
...little. What the public perceives as a vanishing may in fact be an escape into a better reality. In October 1984 Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas, 53, one of the bright hopes of the Democratic Party, learned that he had a mild form of cancer. At first, he decided to plow ahead with his re-election campaign. Then he thought better of it. As a friend told him, "Nobody on his deathbed ever said, 'I wish I had spent more time on my business.' " Tsongas gave up his political career to spend his time with his family. He vanished...