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Grape growers in Northern California have not one but two of these hungry bugs to contend with. About 30,000 acres in Napa and Sonoma counties, site of the state's most prestigious vineyards, will eventually have to be replanted because of infestation by minute root lice called phylloxera. Now many of those same vineyards, as well as others in Lake and Mendocino counties, are battling even more dangerous pests: tiny insects called "sharpshooters," which spread a bacterium that causes Pierce's disease...
...been a monumental year for sports in the Big Apple. And the fans are loving it all. Unless, of course, you happen to be one of those oddball New Yorkers who roots for exactly zero of those teams. Unless, that is, you happen to be me. There's a conspiracy afoot against me. Just about every sports fan I know back in my hometown on Long Island has had at least one team to root for during this year of years for Empire State athletics. Except...
...more than a decade--and didn't even get a good lottery number. And the Islanders looked thoroughly unimpressive in the playoffs. But good sports fans don't just tune out once their teams have been knocked from contention. Instead, they pick the team they like best and root from there. And for New Yorkers and their seven major professional sports franchises, the favored team come playoff time is very often the team playing the bad guys...
...course, I didn't care so much that the Rockets were a step closer to Houston's first-ever professional sports championship. Instead, I was thrilled to death that the enemy couldn't have a clean sweep. It was something to root for in a year when there was nothing for me to root for. And it gave some life to an otherwise dull sports month...
...dark view, but last week elements of that scenario seemed to be taking root. On Tuesday the Democrats lost a Kentucky House seat held by the party for more than 125 years. Ron Lewis, an ultraconservative owner of a religious-book store, bolted from total obscurity to a victory over state senator Joseph Prather, the second G.O.P. upset in a Democratic district in as many weeks. Though Prather disdained Democratic Party money in his race in order to signal his distance from the President, Lewis ran hard against Clinton's programs. As a result, the 55%-to-45% vote suggested...