Word: agrarians
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This fall, Payne and his friends posted messages to the Quincy House open list requesting copper tubing and 30-gallon washtubs in the hopes of building a moonshine distillery in their bathroom. Their attempt at bootlegging fell through, but Payne found another way to bring 18th-century agrarian practices to Quincy Houe...
...system, inadequate communication and electrical infrastructure, and an obstructionist bureaucracy might make it hard for India's economy to match China's spectacular growth. Despite the high-profile growth of the tech sector, for example, agriculture still accounts for nearly a quarter of GDP, and the country's predominantly agrarian population remains at the mercy of the monsoon. In 2002, the rains were poor, and India's agriculture suffered; the economy grew only 4.3%. India's economic planners maintain that the economy is less dependent on the monsoon now and that mediocre growth is a thing of the past...
...year more than 26,000 asylum seekers and refugees came to the country - costing the government j590 million. As it has in the past, the SVP is making immigration (legal and otherwise) a hot-button issue. But this time around the party is breaking out of its traditional elderly, agrarian base to attract younger and more liberal voters - like Pierre-Alain Favre, a 42-year-old computer programmer from Geneva who has always voted for more moderate parties. "Every night I see African drug dealers on the streets and I'm getting sick of it," he says. "I want these...
...past, not the future. It's a world we see in the creepily cozy work of Thomas Kinkade, whose soft-focus paintings of bucolic never-never lands has brought his company, Media Arts Group, almost $75 million so far this year. Fantasy envisions a society modeled loosely on agrarian medieval Europe, though with plenty of Vaseline on the lens. Antitechnology, antiglobalist, it's a misty, watercolored memory of a way we never were. But if the vision is imaginary, the longing for it is very real...
Nestled high in Kirkland House, above the noise and traffic of JFK Street, is a bit of an agrarian oasis created by Joseph M. Whitchurch ’04 and his “apprentice farming protégé,” roommate James R. Griswald ’04. Since moving into school this semester, the guys have been growing a variety of vegetables and herbs such as peppermint, chamomile, lavender and both sweet and hot peppers. The main objective, in addition to providing friends with herbal remedies for a cold or the minty part of a mint...