Two of our three daughters, and my wife as a high schooler, engaged in the infamous corn country summer employment that thousands of teenagers have participated here in the Midwest: Detasseling.

As the dawn pales the night sky Wednesday morning, a school bus on a dirt road south of town stops to deposit a group of youths into a cornfield for another day of detasseling. They are joined by NBS ...

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