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...cultivated). Though wild ginseng accounts for only 26% of U.S. production, it commands much higher prices than the cultivated variety because it is thought to be more potent. The U.S. cultivated ginseng industry is centered in Marathon County in central Wisconsin, which happens to have the welldrained, acidic soil ideal for growing ginseng. There, an estimated 65 farmers grow about 95% of cultivated U.S. ginseng...
...Cairo last March, the Palestine National Council, composed of leaders of organizations representing 3.2 million Palestinians scattered around the world, voted to establish an independent state on whatever portions of the "national soil" could be liberated from Israel-meaning, essentially, the West Bank and Gaza. Then only the rejectionists continued to hold out for a war to the end with the Israelis. Acknowledging a radical change from that position last week, one of the rejectionists explained: "We feel this is the time for the Palestinians to stand together...
Incandescent lava will cover our swamps, our reeking cities, our fields, our flowering hills; it will destroy the contours of that soil we persist in calling "ours...
...that aroused the specter of a fascist state, which the terrorists insist they already are fighting. Observed the Frankfurter Rundschau last week in an uncharacteristically black mood: "Everybody knows that Bonn is not Weimar. But occasionally we doubt whether the second attempt to establish a civilized state on German soil will succeed...
...more than a few ribbons were torn off. The Senate is likely to act favorably on it when Congress returns next month from its August recess. Carter also signed into law the first federal strip-mining bill, which requires mining operators to restore excavated areas to their original soil condition and contours. The legislation is regarded as essential to remove the uncertainties that have prevented mining companies from making the huge investments necessary to bring about the two-thirds increase in coal production that Carter wants...