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Like a Scene from Dante, the night sky south of Villahermosa is filled with a fiery glow. It comes from great gouts of flame that flare off natural gas from scores of wells dotting the steamy marshes, scrubs and jungles of the aptly named state of Tabasco in southeast Mexico. Every day, 300 million cu. ft. of gas, enough to supply the energy needs of Vermont for a month, are simply burned off, in part, because the U.S. Government refuses to pay the price that Mexico demands. The huge gas supply and the appalling waste are symbolic of the future...
...gold and tells how to operate a dog sled up a hill. The dozens of Alaskans he sought out and listened to come trailing clouds of particulars. McPhee can capture a character with the economy of a good short story writer: "Harry is the kind of man who shakes Tabasco on his beans...
...never-ending battle with coyotes, ranchers have used guns, traps and poison but still claim they lose $37 million worth of sheep each year to the predators. Now, after two years of experiments on 2,000 sheep, researchers at the University of Wyoming have come up with a pungent, Tabasco-like chemical compound synthesized from peppers that may be the most effective deterrent of all. When sprayed on sheep, the hot sauce chills a coyote's appetite. One spraying can be effective for up to 28 days. But researchers admit to one obvious concern: coyotes might eventually learn...
...Paco gave in all the way, then. He started to develop a taste for good liquor when before he had never drunk anything except tequila, and he bought an ascot and stopped putting tabasco sauce on everything he ate for dinner. He took down all pictures of Chavez and the Boycott Gallo posters from his wall, but he left up the big black eagle because it impressed all the rich preppie women he started bringing back to his room. He kept telling hemself he didn't have to worry about selling out the movement, because the people...
...mildest opponents are the cultural nationalists who fear homogenization would overtake Puerto Rico as it has other regions of the United States. Completely integrated with the United States, Puerto Rico's culture would dissolve like a drop of Tabasco in a vat of mashed potatoes. Its language, however, would remain a problem. Back when the United States took the Southwest territories from Mexico, they had no qualms and little difficulty in making everyone speak English. But now the country no longer has the moral conviction to demand the assimilation of immigrants. Bilingual education, and for well-organized minorities, bilingual social...