Word: caps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...gang are ready for the chase. With a flourish, Fai slaps on a cool, floppy plaid racing cap, like the ones worn by Cuban jazz trumpeters. It's a bold hat, but it's a bold night and the glint in Fai's gaze makes you think his magnets are spinning full tilt...
...minutes chatting with me about what's gone down in his life in the last 24 hours or so. Puffy seems quite composed, given what he's been through lately. His voice is calm, his face placid, his eyes shaded below the brim of a blue baseball cap. He has a two-way pager in his hand and he's firing off messages about who knows what to who knows whom. But when we start to talk he gives me his complete attention...
...recent rash of food-safety scares-and the huge cost of "emergency measures" to cope with them-has prompted calls for a greener and more rational cap. Renate Kunast, Germany's new Agriculture Minister, advocates dropping price supports and revamping subsidies to encourage small-scale organic farming, which emphasizes eco-friendly land stewardship, animal welfare and use of natural produce. Other politicians, ranging from Blair to German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, have called for a similar reorientation of agriculture policies...
...such reforms face obstacles. Last week the French government defied the common policy by offering $194 million in additional relief to its bse-ravaged farmers. Still, France is reluctant to go along with major changes to the cap, in part because under the current system its farmers receive more cap money than any other E.U. country. And organic farming doesn't necessarily make disease control any easier: the 1967 foot-and-mouth outbreak occurred at a time when small farms predominated in British agriculture. Farmers then kept pigs outside, facilitating the airborne spread of the virus. And for consumers, there...
...Blase finished behind three fencers from Ivy powerhouse Columbia. According to NCAA rules, each school can only send two competitors to nationals in a given event. As a result, Blase will cap off her first year by competing on the national stage...