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...brought over after the voyages of Christopher Columbus and indigenous wild boars. The 70-lb. pig could run swiftly and forage for itself. Indeed, so voracious was its appetite for waste that Haitians did not need outhouses: their pigs kept the neighborhood clean and disease-free. The hogs also rooted in the soil in search of tubers and root-destroying worms, thereby helping turn the earth for planting, ridding crops of insect pests and leaving behind nitrogen-rich manure as fertilizer...
...article "How Does This #%0@! Thing Work?" [ECONOMY & BUSINESS, June 18] is long overdue. I have watched the quality of instruction books deteriorate for years. The root cause is that manufacturers are cheap. The almost universal flaw in how-to guides is a poor index. When our range top turned into a fireworks display, I checked the mail-order catalogue to see what it would cost to replace the unit. There was nothing in the catalogue index under "cookstoves" or "stoves, cook." In earlier years, catalogues had every conceivable synonymous entry...
...somehow, the mistaken notion has taken root, among both critics and the general public, that the private lives of the glitterati of the entertainment industry are off-limits, at least in terms of the respectable press. We're not counting National Enquirer junk--or the apologia, enjoyable as it often is, that comes out of p.r. magazines like People or Rolling Stone. We're talking serious, nuts and bolts journalism, the kind that will look, say, at the life of a John Belushi with the toughness with which a seasoned political writer will look at Richard Nixon. Perhaps because...
Many economists fear that counter trade could severely weaken, rather than bolster, international commerce. It fosters bilateral agreements at the expense of multilateral trade and can reduce over all world commerce. Says Franklin Root, head of the Wharton School's international business program: "Such arrangements are anathema to the free market." Others disagree. Zenon Carnapas, head of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, says that countertrade deals are "a solution of last resort" for struggling LDCS. Still, no one disputes that postwar prosperity was built on the foundation of free and growing trade among nations...
...ground from which the tremendous graphic achievements of a Degas or a Matisse could rise. Such amateur experience added up to a general recognition that to draw, to reconstitute a motif as a code of lines and tonal patches, is to think, and that such thought forms the root of all visual literacy. A stroll in SoHo today, by contrast, will furnish any number of artists who can barely trace, let alone draw...