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...usually in search of employment. While self-reliant, spirited towns like Clay Center are putting up a plucky campaign to bring back jobs and citizens, such communities now find they are threatened by conditions, ranging from global competition to deregulation, that are beyond their control. As the small towns shrivel away, so does a way of life that helped define America's character. The U.S. is gradually becoming a more congested, coastal megalopolis, with an increasingly lonely place in the middle...
Hamlets like Clay Center, Kans., have been sapped by an epic postwar migration to cities and suburbs, a trend that has accelerated in the past decade. As small towns shrivel, so does a way of life that helped define the national character. -- Despite qualms, the U.S. will assist Japan in building the FSX jet. -- The Mommy Track debate: Should motherhood put a woman on a slower career path...
Like Martin Luther (or somebody) -- richly aware that the world might end tomorrow -- I keep planting apple seeds and watching to see how they grow. Some never germinate at all, some pop up about an inch and then slowly shrivel. But there stands outside my window one apple tree that was once a seed and is now more than twice as tall as I am. All it took me to grow it was about 15 years of my life...
...such products as Breyers Ice Cream and Dannon Yogurt, stood in his giant strawberry patch and mourned row upon row of darkened, spoiled fruit. His expected loss: $100,000. To the north, meanwhile, Richard Cowin, a black- cherry grower in Wapato, Wash., watched downheartedly as his crop began to shrivel...
...calls a "fluctuation of metabolism" it the trees. "By fall, the metabolism essentially stops and reassimilation of nutrients into the tree begins," Einset says. The leaves begin breaking down, and the nutrients contained in them are absorbed into the bark of the tree. So, the leave fall off and shrivel to crispy, brown leaf corpses. And all over Vermont, people begin burning pile of dead leaves in their front and back yards...