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...grandfather owned a thresher, the only one in the village at that time. When Communist officials took my grandfather's land and thresher away as part of "collectivization," they forced him into service for the collectivity. In exchange for his work he received a far smaller portion of the harvest than he did when his thresher was his own. The propaganda of volunteering for the community did not work for him and for many others mainly because the members of the community received too little to lead a decent life...
...upset about. Two years of unusually cloudy weather cast a pall over the entire operation. The hummingbirds died, and so did the finches. The bees failed to pollinate the squash, and mites feasted on the beans and white potatoes. One crew member, Jane Poynter, lost a fingertip in a thresher accident. (She was whisked out for emergency treatment and then returned.) The rest came down with assorted complaints: diarrhea, back pain, eye and urinary-tract infections and a cold that made the rounds until there was no one left to catch...
...enthusiasm was not enough to propel the dream into reality. "Wind developed a reputation for not working, and it had the stigma of a tax scam," says Robert Thresher, the wind-program manager at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo. Eventually the problems caused power companies to back away. And by 1985, when the tax credits expired, the remaining wind towers began looking more and more like monuments to a lost cause...
...water's surface instantly sends swimmers racing for the shore (with strains of the ominous two-tone theme from Jaws pounding in their heads). But in recent years these perilous predators have become a popular American entree. Commercial shark fishing has begun to threaten several species, including the thresher, mako and hammerhead. "At this point, we're talking about a marked decline," says Charles Manire, a shark researcher at the University of Miami. "But if it doesn't stop, we're going to be talking about extinction...
Paradigm has become a buzz word for theorists of the emerging world. The term, from the Greek paradeigma, means an example, a model, a pattern. People in business schools, in think tanks, in the White House, use paradigm as a sort of reality thresher -- a way of comparing past and present, an implement for sorting out history at a moment of tumbling global change. Paradigm is a buzz word that does not sing, of course, but never mind. Buzz words, being often tricky, insincere or brainless, are part of the Old Paradigm anyway...