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That lethargic scene has been playing itself out for months now across broad swaths of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. City dwellers in those states, out for a Sunday afternoon drive in the country, may not recognize the creeping devastation sweeping past their car windows. Irrigated fields are still green, overshadowing the brown, crisping lands between and around them. Thanks to lessons learned in the 1930s, farm acreage has long been tilled and cultivated with an eye to soil conservation, to making fields less likely to blow away; the contemporary Dust Bowl is not as dusty...
Dozens of independent regional snack companies have folded in recent years. "Frito-Lay makes no bones about it," says Spencer Hill, vice president of sales and marketing of Clover Club Foods, a $60 million manufacturer of salty snacks in Kaysville, Utah. "They want to be the only salted-snack company in the country." Another food-company executive says Frito-Lay fields marketing "warlords" assigned to ride herd on regional companies. "They are the best-run company in the food business," this executive says, without rancor. "They are terrific at what they are doing--and we don't want anything...
...suggesting that gay activists are in fact attempting to poison the youth of America with same-sex propaganda. Christian conservatives fear that children are being exposed to gay alternatives too early in life, when they are not old enough to make a mature judgment about their own inclinations. The Utah legislature recently passed a bill banning gay clubs in state high schools. And at Merrimack High School in New Hampshire, teachers have stopped using a film on the life of Walt Whitman because it mentions...
...there was a threatening phone call in connection with West's appearance at the University of Utah, West's agent told The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette...
West was in Utah to deliver the 17th annual Lecture on Human Values...