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...campaign. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano signed an agreement for enhanced cooperation in the Mexican capital this week, declaring that "the collaboration between Mexico and the United States has never been stronger." The latest accord follows a hike in funding for the so-called Mérida Initiative to beef up Mexican security forces. In total, the U.S. has pledged $1.6 billion worth of equipment and training for its neighbor, including eight Black Hawk and 13 Bell helicopters for Mexico's army and federal police...
...contests are all about; and the showbiz impulse behind them drives big-name chefs, who all want to be the person that elicits that breathless gasp of wonderment. It's ego, yes, but it's also the urge of any artist. It's why we're not still eating beef wellington and clams casino. It's why food matters now in a way it didn't 20 years...
...Beefing about Carbon Here in the home of roast beef, cattle have been taking a bashing too [Jan. 25]. Yet if there's one thing this island of sunshine and showers will grow, it's grass. This is why the farmers round here have been grazing cattle on pasture for upwards of 5,000 years. Those neolithic herders had it right. Grass-fed cows don't just produce the heathiest foods, they put fertility (and carbon) back in our soil. Graham Harvey, WATCHET, ENGLAND
...Beefing about Carbon Here in the home of roast beef, cattle have been taking a bashing too [Jan. 25]. Yet if there's one thing this island of sunshine and showers will grow, it's grass. This is why the farmers round here have been grazing cattle on pasture for upwards of 5,000 years. Those neolithic herders had it right. Grass-fed cows don't just produce the heathiest foods, they put fertility (and carbon) back in our soil. Graham Harvey Watchet, England
...million aquaculture company with fish farms in Greece, Turkey and Wales, says Greece's woes are "an opportunity to consolidate and buy up companies with liquidity problems." Constantine Petropoulos, chairman of Petros Petropoulos, a $158 million firm that sells cars, automotive supplies and industrial equipment, also plans to beef up his portfolio. "We will acquire businesses that we wouldn't have ever been able to consider in better times," he says...