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REDUCE your consumption of foods made with wheat flour and sugar, especially bread and most packaged snack foods...
Severe drought in southern Europe this summer is taking a heavy toll on farmers in Spain, Portugal and parts of France and Italy. With rainfall levels far below normal, many crops, from wheat to lettuce, are suffering. Water is now officially rationed in two-thirds of France and much of Spain; some Spanish provinces have even closed or restricted swimming pools and public fountains. The European Commission estimates that grain production will drop by about 28 million tons, or about 10%, in the four countries, with output of some types of wheat down by 25%. Olive and vegetable growers...
...instant, provided an odd hope that such terror would never be allowed to happen again. After Hiroshima, the U.S. and the Soviet Union built thousands of nuclear devices, and the threat of nuclear war kept a political and ideological contest within bounds. Buried in silos in the wheat fields of North Dakota, tucked into the torpedo tubes of Soviet submarines parked in the North Atlantic, slung in the bomb bays of B-52s, the American and Soviet nuclear arsenals mutually assured the destruction of both sides if hostilities commenced. The cold war turned into a long peace...
...storm of controversy. The damage those dams have done is clear. Since they were built in eastern Washington State from 1955 to 1975, the salmon population in the Snake has gone into free fall. But the benefits the dams provide are also clear: inexpensive barge transport for wheat farmers, irrigation water for fruit growers and a small but still useful amount of hydropower...
Minneapolis, Kans., started a successful program in 1999. But it wasn't until Marquette enjoyed huge success with its program in 2003 that word spread, inspiring copycats. Marquette, within an hour's drive of Salina and Hutchinson, bought 50 acres of wheat field on the west side and began laying streets and utilities. All 82 lots have been taken; 23 new homes are finished or being built. The city's population, which had been falling, is now 650--up from 527 a year ago--and 45 kids have been added to the elementary school, says Mayor Piper. The giveaways "saved...