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When the U.S. discovered nylon rope, the farmers plowed under their cannabis, but the wild weed does not die easily. Each spring new plants appeared, and winds and birds carried the seed throughout Cass County. With the coming of the pot culture, the young developed an unexpected passion for farming, sneaking into Cass County's fallow fields by night to harvest the wild grass...
...Division singles. Peter Briggs beat number one seed Will Cleveland in the semi-finals. 4-6, 6-2, 6-1, and Phil St. Georges in the finals...
...major battlefields of the longest war in American history. The mountain jungles have been cratered and burned and sprayed; the woodcutters and hunters have fled. The farmers have been driven east, their villages leveled and their fields scorched and abandoned. The people of Quang Nam province, once scattered like seed across the land, are now huddled together along the shoulders of new cement roads in huts made from U.S. artillery crates...
...riots. Stokes, the first black mayor of a major urban center, became a symbol of hope in Cleveland; and in the glare of national attention, the city embarked on an ambitious program of revitalization and reconciliation called "Cleveland: Now!" The program, to be financed with private donations as a seed fund for federal grants, had the backing of the white business establishment and much of the rest of the community...
...foods sold in organic shops can reach for the exotic: carrot cupcakes, sunflower-seed cookies and countless varieties of honey, including alfalfa, avocado, tupelo blossom, eucalyptus, mesquite and thistle. Manhattan's Good Earth market offers 13 varieties of dates (among them Halawy, Khadrawy and Zahidi*), three types of yogurt, including goat, organic ice cream and pizza and 125 types of herbal teas. The strawberries, lettuce, tomatoes and chicken can hardly be distinguished from those in conventional markets-except, aficionados insist, by healthfulness and taste. The most striking difference is price: 25% to 50% more than regular foods...