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...American business have become dependent on low-wage illegal laborers to wash dishes, pour foundations, plant impatiens and butcher cattle. And the exodus has had a stranger impact south of the border: rural Mexico has hollowed out so dramatically that many villages are void of men and the agrarian economy is failing. But the workers up north are sending so much money back home--$8 billion a year by most estimates--that these "remittances" are now the fourth largest source of income. Both governments pretend that 3 million illegal Mexicans live in the States; both know the real number...
...Whether by destiny or chance, Delvoye's controversial art seems perfectly aligned with Europe's current indigestion over what it ingests. He was born in rural Flanders where there are more pigs than people, and he says he has always felt a pull to the "agrarian tradition" in Flemish art. His studio walls bear ironic witness to that: photographs that seem to depict delicate inlaid marble floors are actually intarsia of processed meat, pork parquettes fashioned from deep scarlet salamis and delicate pink bolognas and hams. One previous succés de scandale was to tattoo live pigs with...
Well, maybe you don't see the danger to our democracy. Briefly, the more inequality there is in society, the lower the likelihood of democracy. Hence Jefferson's ideal of an agrarian utopia...
...school calendar is seen by many as a quaint holdover from the agrarian economy when students needed weekends and summers off to help till the family farm. And it's a distinctly American phenomenon. While most American students spend their late afternoons and weekends doing nothing in particular, students in other nations simply devote more days to schoolwork. Italian and Korean children have more than 200 school days; Chinese kids have 250 - and, unsurprisingly, many tend to outscore their American peers. Add that to the growing research showing that during those long summer vacations, when memories fade and learning...
...even a big name like Antinori or Banfi, has more than a 1% domestic market share. Italian wines are identified by region (or appellation, such as Chianti or Barolo) rather than by brand. Growth potential in Europe is dampened by the fact that in the change from an agrarian to an industrial society, wine consumption in Italy and France has plummeted from 180 liters a person in 1900 to 40 liters now. And yet, over the past five years, Marchesi de' Frescobaldi has doubled sales, to $40 million, and hiked its profit margins from under 13% to better than...