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...like fruit, eggs and flowers) to a central location. Prices vary widely depending on where you live. The csa in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx costs just $220 for five months for those with a low income (food stamps accepted). The csa run by Angelic Organics in Caledonia, Ill., starts at $600 for 20 weeks of vegetables and goes north of $1,000 when you add fruit...
...CALEDONIA got France to cede direct rule in 1991. A vote on full sovereignty for the South Pacific archipelago is expected between...
...Named for the site in New Caledonia where it was first found and dated in 1952, Lapita pottery, with its distinctive dentate, or tooth-shaped, designs across a red surface, is the signature of the people - believed to be ancestors of today's Polynesians - who began moving east of the Solomon Islands about 3,200 years ago. Their pottery, found in fragments at numerous occupation sites scattered from New Guinea's Bismarck Archipelago in the west, to Samoa in the east, is like a trail of breadcrumbs across the Pacific, left by these colonizing explorers as they moved with their...
...Deputies of the French National Assembly last week left their vacation villas and returned to Paris at the bidding of Socialist President Francois Mitterrand. The summons came two days after France's legislative review panel rejected as unconstitutional part of a plan to organize regional elections in New Caledonia, a major step toward making the country's Pacific territory independent. The review panel said that the bill, which would have maintained New Caledonia's defense and economic links with France while dividing the island into four voting regions, favored native Kanaks at the expense of French settlers, known as caldoches...
...cache was evidently earmarked for settlers in the French territory of New Caledonia. More than 20 people have died over the past 14 months in clashes between French settlers and indigenous Melanesians seeking independence from France. The ship's cook, Michel Four, 29, pleaded guilty to illegal possession of the munitions, but he insisted that profits, not politics, had motivated him. "I need money because I want to marry a young New Zealander," he told an Auckland court. In Paris, the incident drew yawns. Noted a French official: "A boat has been stopped in New Zealand with several bullets...