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Long familiar to French chefs, baby vegetables are a growing business across the Atlantic. Upscale restaurants are increasingly partial to downsize squash, zucchini, carrots, lettuce and green beans. The stateside craze means Guatemalan gold. A year-round growing season, rich volcanic soil and high- altitude geography give the impoverished nation a significant edge in the U.S. winter-vegetable market, as indicated by last week's crowning achievement: a party for Britain's Queen Elizabeth in Houston, where Guatemalan baby squash and pineapples the size of softballs were on the menu. Yet back in Central America, no one would dream...
...fires could hurt millions of people by affecting life-giving monsoons in July and August. El- Baz, who just completed a research trip to the gulf region, derives his ideas in part from an earlier analysis he did of the impact of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. Soil stirred up by that conflict doubled the intensity and frequency of the shamal sandstorms. El-Baz believes that the much heavier bombing and widespread trench digging in the latest war produced the material for even more intense sandstorms, which will combine with oil mist and soot from the fires...
Even if the rains do come, the sulfur-laden smoke and soot may make the soil too acidic for crops to grow. Considering the scale of these threats, it is surprising that organized efforts to gather information about the fires are only just getting under way. Last week a team of scientists sponsored by the Defense Nuclear Agency, the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society, among others, began their first flights to analyze the composition, density and persistence of the smoke. One important question: Does the smoke naturally repel water or, as El-Baz and some other scientists...
...real question is, What eventually grew on this bloodied soil? The answer is, The great modern civilizations of the Americas -- a new world of individual rights, an ever expanding circle of liberty and, twice in this century, a savior of the world from totalitarian barbarism...
...year, the villagers would usually be busy cultivating the land, but their fields are flooded with salt water. The 10-ft. mud wall that normally keeps out the sea was washed away in the storm. Until the dike is rebuilt, the tides will bring more salinity to the soil, eventually making it unfit for farming and threatening Ujantia's existence...