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...time to plant cotton and corn has come and, in most places, gone, while farmers hunker down in their fields and crumble handfuls of soil into plumes of fine dust. Texas is the nation's leading cotton-growing state, but agronomists there predict that 50% of this year's crop could be lost, along with more than $200 million profit to farmers and producers. Prospects for the corn crop are just as barren. "Corn should be 8 ft. high by now," says Mark Miller, an agricultural economist at Texas A&M University, "but even in the best fields...
...vote count starts, early reports predict only a modest turnout of Israel's Arab citizens; Shaath becomes nervous. "We need an 80% Israeli-Arab participation rate," he says heatedly ("we" refers to the Peres effort, and Shaath uses the word throughout the evening). To reach that goal the Palestinian Authority had urged Arab clerics and other trusted pro-Peres Palestinians to go door to door to push Arab Israelis to the polls. After a last-minute surge, 79% of them did vote, and more than 94% supported Peres. "Remember," Shaath says, smiling, "we don't interfere. But after this...
Kantor also says he supports Riley's plan to integrate the police and guard units into community-based teams, although he says he cannot predict how the plan will be enacted or whether it will meet with opposition...
Such numbers are not just a snapshot of how we live today. To experts who understand the trajectory of childhood development, the statistics predict a grim future for American society. As Douglas Nelson, executive director of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, puts it, "It may well be that the nation cannot survive--as a decent place to live, as a world-class power or even as a democracy--with such high rates of children growing into adulthood unprepared to parent, unprepared to be productively employed and unprepared to share in mainstream aspirations...
Iraq is finally cooperating well enough with United Nations monitoring to be allowed to sell oil for food and medicine. Hearing that news, I couldn't help wondering whether I should have been able to predict some movement toward flexibility in Baghdad when I noticed an Associated Press item last March that began, "Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has ordered an end to the practice of cutting off the ears of army deserters and draft dodgers...