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In a district where tilling the soil is not a hobby but an industry of thousand-acre farms, Ewing's chairmanship of the Risk Management and Specialty Crops Subcommittee makes him a formidable foe. His bias toward his district's needs--he guided a controversial farm bill through Congress last...
When McGinniss does focus on him, it is only to say obvious things with superficial evidence: that he carried the burden of having bigger-than-life brothers (one sign: his face twitched when McGinniss broached the subject years ago), that he felt left out of the family, and that he...
Is all this complex gear necessary? After all, Indonesian volcanologists have established a warning system that makes effective use of dedicated, if often poorly equipped, human observers. The answer is that the better scientists get at predicting eruptions, the less chance of false alarms. In 1976, 72,000 residents of...
One of Tilling's colleagues, geophysicist Bernard Chouet, believes he may have found an answer to this dilemma. Prior to many large-scale eruptions, he says, seismometers have picked up tremors that appear to be caused, not by the fracturing of rock, but by low-frequency waves that resonate through...
But by far the best things to take home are memories of a way of life that still exists in only a few places in the West. When has anyone there last seen a horse and cart on a four-lane expressway? Or oxen tilling a field? Or a Gypsy...