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...this," we say, "I will give to you, if only you will show yourself better -- as well as no better -- than the rest of us." A single American baseball player today signs contracts that will bring him as much money as 20,000 Laotians will earn from now till the end of the century. And the Olympics, with their multinational coverage and million-dollar endorsement possibilities, are hardly innocent of this...
...biggest impulse to the recent explosion, however, has been the end of the cold war. "The reason why the ethnic rivalries and aspirations surfaced so suddenly in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe is that till recently communism kept them in a time warp," says Oxford history professor Robert O'Neill. Tensions burst forth with explosive fury as soon as the lid of dictatorship was lifted...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--"They can fight with each other from now till November as far as I'm concerned," Bill Clinton said of Ross Perot and George Bush last week. He was trying his hardest--at least for once--to stay out of the political slime-slinging, although NBC News reported that his advisers had been phoning reporters to point out negative stories about Perot...
...before men who were struggling to survive. "Every year do you just keep taking your corn check and turning it over to the implement dealer?" Kinsella asked. Sarver was born again. On a bus home from Kinsella's school he began to figure how he would convert to no-till farming field by field. He did not have enough money to phase in the new methods so he went cold turkey, sold his seven-bottom plow and the larger of his two tractors, a 225-h.p. four-wheel-drive John Deere. He used to make eight trips each season across...
...every caring farmer there is the understanding that he is only the land's temporary steward. "I wanted to take care of the land," he says simply. "We have to. That's our future." Last year 80% of the 1,000 acres he farms for landowners was in no-till...