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Farmers and ranchers across the blistered Southwest and Lower Plains have already experienced a rough spring, with no relief on the horizon. They have watched winter-wheat crops wither and die. Kansas normally produces 360 million to 420 million bushels of wheat annually; the estimate for this year is 185 million bushels. "Personally, I think those estimates are a bit high," says Mike Brown, president of the Kansas Association of Wheat Growers. "I hope they're on the low side, but I wouldn't be surprised if [the crop] was below 150 million...
Police pursued complaints of manipulation of wealthy cultists for their money by shadowy Solar Temple survivors. With the guru's demise, though, the decapitated order seemed likely to wither away. Vuarnet's family knew better. Recalling his brother's guilt at not having been "called" in 1994, Alain Vuarnet says Patrick "looked me straight in the eye and said, 'Alain, you are the one deluding yourself. You just don't understand.' " In view of the cult's still extensive assets and international following, authorities are trying harder than ever now to understand...
...leads Western countries to despair for the U.N., a number of critics prescribe benign neglect for a creature swollen with rhetoric, unread paperwork and merely stray achievements on the ground. Many agencies are financed in large part by voluntary funds; governments could favor worthwhile functions and let the rest wither away. Parsons' verdict: "Well, let it become irrelevant if it won't reform itself. Don't let's waste too much time and the energy of clever...
...monumental of buildings. As upperclassmen stroll through Harvard Yard year after year, we witness with what great care the memorable first-year dorms are restored. I was fortunate to be a first-year in Weld the year following its renovation. It seems that no dorm is merely allowed to wither away for too long without undergoing some restorative treatment...
...conventional feminine virtue: stuck by her philandering husband, and of course refrained from fooling around herself. Not that the children would necessarily have had an easy time of it. Women who sacrifice everything for the kids often make cold, embittered moms, or suffocating, emotionally overwhelming moms, or else they wither away from a depression for which the kids eventually blame themselves. Though at least, in those cases, the children live long enough to experience the concept of "eventually...