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...that is almost two-thirds the size of the U.S. Three years ago, policemen noticed that relatively primitive Indians were suddenly sporting modern clothes and traveling in motorboats. The peasants, they learned, had been pressured by Colombians into cultivating epadu, a shrubby small tree that can grow in the forest and attain a height of 10 ft. Epadu contains about 40% less active alkaloid than the more common coca variety cultivated in the Andes and yields less pure cocaine per kilo. But it costs the trafficker 60% less to buy and can sprout as many as 30 shoots, often very...
...Blue Devils did pick up a huge ACC win last Wednesday night in nearby Greensboro, where they defeated Wake Forest, 76-70, in overtime
...Taylor's six previous collections of short stories. But this is, essentially, a new book. Much of Taylor's earlier work is now difficult or impossible to buy; small printings were snapped up by his band of devoted readers and were not, as a rule, reissued. So The Old Forest supplies something that is unavailable in the literary marketplace. And the selection of these stories reveals a continuity and cohesion in Taylor's art that were less visible before. The settings are similar: the U.S. South during the 1930s and '40s, not the bogs or backwaters but growing cities like...
...child prodigy who sat in with Cuba's best musicians as early as the age of seven, D'Rivera went on to become a founding member of the Cuban super band, Irakere. Founded in the early 1970s, Irakere (whose name is a Yoruba meaning forest), an II-piece aggregation that drew on Afro-Cuban religion and folklore as well as jazz, rock and even classical music, was typical of the eclectic approach many Cuban bands took following the revolution...
...President made no such demands and did not raise the question of whether Japan would renew the "voluntary" restraint agreement on auto exports due to expire in March. But he stressed that Japan should open its markets in areas where the U.S. is particularly competitive, notably telecommunications, electronics, forest products and medical supplies. Nakasone replied that he was "keenly aware" of U.S. "frustration" and promised personally to "step in and deal with specific problems." He displayed a reassuring grasp of details: when American officials cited the dialysis machine as an example of products being kept out of the Japanese market...