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...large donations, most notably John Harvard's, but it also depended on the help of the legislature, which granted Harvard the revenues of the Boston-to-Charleston ferry and a special tax called the College Corne--each New England family was required to donate a peck of wheat for the College's support...
...story of Dobanday is typical. Just six years ago, 20,000 people lived in spacious adobe houses scattered across the floor of a green, spring-fed canyon some 45 miles south of Kabul. "Life was good," recalls Haji Jumah Gul. "We had wheat, corn, rice, melons, apples, cherries, pears and mulberries. Almost everyone had cattle and sheep." Many of the villagers were prosperous enough to be able to afford a pilgrimage each year to Mecca...
...mild winter, and lately the rain has been steady in key western areas. In addition, more higher-yielding winter wheat was planted than in previous years, and as an incentive for farmers to raise production, the government increased the prices it pays for their grain. Nonetheless, Soviet authorities say they are preparing for another disappointing grain harvest. Trade officials in Moscow told a delegation from Western Europe earlier this summer that this year's estimated yield could fall roughly 10 million metric tons below last year's total of 190 million...
...Executive Vice President of Jack Daniel Distillery, theTennessee sour-mash whisky maker. "In the past two years, we have had so much adverse publicity about the effects of hard liquor, it is almost like having Prohibition back." His worry is premature. According to Gavaler, phytoestrogen is also prevalent in wheat, rice and hops, as well as peanut, soybean and olive...
...white Yorkshires, to pens outside the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. Although they are now thriving in their roofed stys, nobody knows if these pampered replacement hogs will prosper or even survive the harsh life of their new homeland. The imported pigs were eating such food as wheat shorts and soya supplemented by vitamins and minerals, and drinking water from taps-all luxuries unknown to most Haitians, much less the old black hogs. Once the island is declared free of disease, the Haitian government, aided by a $27 million Inter-American Development Bank loan, will restock the island...