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Moreover, bracken has in several global regions devastated croplands and pastures, thereby endangering livestock that eat the fern. Yet even weed killing sprays can not eliminate the stubborn plant, and in Scotland alone, the bracken has monopolized more than 400,000 acres of cleared land...
...WEED FOR BURNING by Conrad Detrez Translated by Lydia Davis Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 258 pages...
FICTION: The Engineer of Human Souls, Josef Skvorecky ∙ Imaginary Magnitude, Stanislaw Lem Machine Dreams, Jayne Anne Phillips ∙ Something Out There, Nadine Gordimer ∙ Tough Guys Don't Dance, Norman Mailer ∙ A Weed for Burning, Conrad Detrez...
...grade point averages to a standard four point scale. Straight A's from Harvard undergraduates are virtually unheard of, Geraghty notes. The average undergraduate GPA at the Law School is 3.5, but courses receive almost as much scrutiny as grades in the admissions process. Geraghty studies the transcripts to weed out the gut-seekers from the achievers, and she says she's familiar with the course offerings at 20 to 30 schools...
...Yankee Station, Boyd's aspiring lechers either vent or invent grievances all the way from California to France and from Africa to Viet Nam. Yet however exotic the horizon, the foreground is always grungy. The sea along the Côte d'Azur is "filled with weed and feces from an untreated sewage outlet"; Cameroon is "a stinking, sweaty country," of insects and imbroglios; California beaches are littered with derelicts and bums; and just about everywhere, there are washed-out blonds in greasy cafés or easy women who turn out to be hard...