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...American West and Southwest as well as parts of northern Mexico and Central and South America. Face masks offer only limited protection against the infinitesimal spores, and efforts to design a vaccine have yet to succeed. The fungus multiplies dramatically whenever the soil becomes damp after a protracted dry spell. Swept into the air by winds, construction equipment, even the passing feet of farm workers, the spores can travel up to hundreds of miles on the surface of dust particles. Central California's six-year drought, which has been interspersed with warm, heavy rains, as well as the region...
...typically eccentric mixture of Cohen tunes and moods -- sensual, alarming, cautionary, caustic, devastating -- that gives the music the eerie persistence of a half-heard spell. But even his eccentricity is so wide- ranging, so continually renewing and surprising, that it probably isn't fair to call it typical. Anyone who expects the morose, slightly spacy voluptuary who sang, most famously, on the sound track of Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller -- the Cohen who sounded like Villon with frostbite -- is in for a mighty shock encountering The Future...
...colorful adventure tale. The son of a New York City Social Register architect, he had already, by the time he graduated from Yale, studied at the Sorbonne, served in the Navy and sold fiction to the Atlantic. After a short stint teaching writing at Yale, followed by a spell in Paris, he began working as a commercial fisherman to support his art. Then, separated from his first wife (he has had three, and four children), he loaded a few books, a gun and a sleeping bag into his Ford convertible and set off to visit every wildlife refuge...
...there is no mystery about the spell Barney casts on children. One Washington toddler wakes up each morning and greets his parents with an eager, "Hi, watch Barney." A four-year-old girl in Pensacola, Florida, who learned that Barney appears on TV while she is attending preschool, threatened to boycott school until her parents agreed to videotape the show for her. At a Connecticut elementary school, first-graders pay homage to a Barney poster on the door before they walk into the classroom...
...yogurt? Cranberry juice? Relax. Help is on the way. The Bush Administration has unveiled new rules that should help solve the mysteries of what packaged foods really contain. Finalized after weeks of wrangling between the Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services, the 4,000 pages of regulations spell out guidelines for labeling the amount of calories, fat and nutrients in everything from potato chips to cans of soup. This boon to the consumer doesn't come cheap. By May of 1994, more than 270,000 food labels must be changed, costing the industry about $2 billion...