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...door. "I can't thank you enough for what you've done for this country," said an earnest young woman in a business suit. A man pumped her hand. "I can't believe I have the honor of standing here talking to you," he said. "Aren't you sweet," Goldberg purred...
...lined the corridors just to catch his smile. We allowed ourselves to hope that years hence, we might recall 1998 for the entry he blasted into the record books, the way 1961 is associated with Roger Maris. No such luck. But we felt that his tale served as a sweet antidote to the big story of the year, so you can read in this issue Joel Stein's intimate profile, Dan Okrent's appreciation and a touching salute by his endearing pacer Sammy Sosa...
...peril on the sea; that we continue to be interested in one another as a story and keep at the story of ourselves until, maybe, one day we'll get it right. The story of the year? It might have been the moment we looked up with that sweet old eagerness and hope and told each other a story...
...article "Sweet Deal" on sugar production in Florida, part of your series on corporate welfare [Nov. 23], leveled numerous false charges against all Florida sugar farmers. Far from polluting the Everglades, sugar farmers have made their runoff water twice as clean as the legal standard. The $3 billion-to-$8 billion Everglades repair cost is for replumbing the entire water system of South Florida, where the population has grown tenfold since the system's construction in the 1950s, with suburbs pushing out farmland. Sugar farmers have spent millions meeting one of the nation's toughest water-quality standards. Rather than...
...Sweet Deal" you stated that the cultivation of sugarcane is connected to environmental problems in Florida Bay. However, the summer 1996 edition of the Florida Bay News, an Everglades National Park publication, reported that "nutrients from agriculture runoff do not make it to Florida Bay." Additionally, your article incorrectly implied that the sugar industry has created much of the current need for several billion dollars of restorative measures but omitted the well-known cause for the condition of the Everglades--the massive plumbing system installed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide flood control and water supply...