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People tend to think only of truckers when they hear the word Teamster, but the union today embraces workers from all walks of life -- hospital and brewery laborers, librarians, schoolteachers, even state troopers and sheriff's deputies -- in more than 600 locals scattered as far as Guam and the Yukon Territory. Despite a membership erosion caused mostly by trucking deregulation (the Teamsters peaked in 1978 at 2.3 million), the union boasts the largest U.S. political-action committee. Last year it raised $10.5 million, nearly twice as much as the runner-up, the American Medical Association. That money buys plenty...
Most Favored Vegetable No need to limit yourself to a red from Colorado or one of Idaho's browns. What about Yukon Gold? Or Peruvian purple? We're talking serious potato now -- the bulked-out veggie that conquered the culinary world in 1990. At power luncheries, a favorite appetizer of the glitterati was a spare baked potato. But you could get it boiled, fried, duchessed and, most of all, mashed...
...Garth Brooks. As luck would have it, he came along about the same time. He's the same age as Black, 28, and he hails from roughly the same background (raised in Yukon, Okla., just outside Oklahoma City) and the same stretch of musical country. Black's tunes have a little more sadness in them, maybe more dimension. Brooks comes on easier, making a direct assault on the heartstrings, singing in a kind of simonized tenor suitable for both serenades and bust outs. His debut album, Garth Brooks, is No. 2, right behind Killin' Time, and has spent about half...
...blue-collar Pennsylvania village of Yukon (pop. 1,100), Diana Steck is leading a protest organization of 600 members. Using roadblocks and other acts of civil disobedience as well as the legal system, the group is trying to force authorities to clean up six polluted lagoons that it suspects are killing livestock and causing cancer among the populace...
...biggest battles at the moment: protecting some 250 members of the mining community of Kellogg, Idaho, where lead has been leaching from an old Gulf Resources smelter, and trying to help 400 families living near five toxic lagoons at the Mill Service dump site in Yukon...