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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most interested in the farmers. What was it like to raise wheat in the Midwest, alone in the field, with four years at a private university back East buried deep in the past? We aren't sure, because there is only one line in the sketch of Charles Beardsley, a farmer from Clarks, Nebraska...

Author: By Zachary M. Schrag, | Title: The Class of (18)92 | 4/7/1992 | See Source »

...equivalent of about 15 bucks will buy a bus trip to many of the hamlets--and wheat fields and cows--scattered across the Argentinian pampas...

Author: By Joe Mathews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Best of Two Worlds | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

...impact of ozone loss will be felt first in Antarctica, where levels of the gas have been severely depleted each spring for several years. Populations of marine organisms are not shrinking so far, but they have begun to produce UV-absorbing pigments. In Australia, scientists believe that crops of wheat, sorghum and peas have been affected, and health officials report a threefold rise in skin cancers. There are anecdotal reports of more cancer in Argentina too. While no increase in cancers or cataracts has shown up yet in Chile or New Zealand, experts note that these diseases can take years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ozone Vanishes And not just over the South Pole | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

...good unless he comes out of the New York or Philadelphia ghettoes. The only other semi-acknowledged (by these Eastern hoops gurus) source of basketball talent is the fields of Indiana, the land of the Hoosier myth. But only rarely does a great one emerge from the wheat fields and the single hoop planted in the grass by a dirt road...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Likable Ethnicites | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

...should have stayed home. The President's call for free trade boomeranged in Australia, where farmers were quick to point out that export subsidies for American grain prevent wheat grown Down Under from being sold competitively in the world marketplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trade and Politics: Mission Impossible | 1/20/1992 | See Source »

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