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...ponds around rice paddies and feed carp in the ponds with weeds from the rice field. The silt from the ponds is used as fertilizer for the fields, and crabs are grown to eat pests. Some of those techniques are being adapted in Western fish farms. In Tuscaloosa, Ala., Dan Butterfield, 59, raises bass, carp, catfish and other species in the same pond; the sun and the catfish feces stimulate the growth of phytoplankton, which feeds the other species. His water stays relatively clean, with no need to discharge wastes. "I am probably the most environment-friendly fish farmer...
MOST POLITICAL USE OF COOKIES SINCE COLORADO STATEHOUSE DISTRICT 8 From an ad for Bud's Best Cookies, in Birmingham, Ala., that aired during local election coverage: "Bud's cookies are conservative in price. But more importantly, they are liberal in taste...
...next six days were the most crucial to the chase, but they were also the most hectic and confused as the dragnet spread cross country from the D.C. area to Montgomery, Ala., and Washington State. Here's what we know...
...identifying himself as the sniper calls police. A federal law-enforcement official tells TIME that he also mentions Montgomery, Ala., and says, "I did something down there." According to the official, the task force then contacts Montgomery, Ala., police to ask about unsolved crimes...
...last week that the two men charged in the sniper shootings, John Allen Muhammad, 41, and Lee Malvo, 17, may be linked to other killings. These crimes, however, seem to have been committed at closer range than the Washington-area murders. Like the failed liquor-store robbery in Montgomery, Ala., that provided authorities with the case's first major break, the Baton Rouge murder appears to have been about money; the killers robbed a woman as she closed her beauty-supply shop. The Tacoma shooting took place at the home of a friend of Muhammad's ex-wife...