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...expenses once they got older. Many families rationalized that if their children were in Mexico and were sixteen, they would already have been done with school and out there working. Some took jobs in home construction, fast-food restaurants, garages, whatever could be found. Some even worked at the chicken plant on second shift at night, using false IDs because they were under eighteen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Home on the Field | 8/26/2006 | See Source »

Could Arkansas - land of rich barbecue, fried chicken and a famously overindulgent former President - turn out to be a rare bright spot in America's battle against child obesity? That was the proud claim made in a new report released on Wednesday by the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement and Governor Mike Huckabee, who is himself renown for losing 110 lbs. while in office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good News on Obesity in Arkansas | 8/17/2006 | See Source »

...answer is, in part, the technology is not that bad,? says Barber. ?Perdue may be evil incarnate, but they have bred a chicken that is goddamn profitable. And easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Farm-to-Table Fetish | 8/15/2006 | See Source »

...After the tour, Barber helped cook one the best meals of my life. My notes are filled with superlatives: "by far the best chicken I've ever eaten"; "tomatoes so fresh and tomato-y that they taste like a pure idea of tomato, not the thing itself"; "delish corn"; "a peach poached, perfumed so beautifully it seems to be solid, liquid, gas at once." After I paid, I took the train back to Manhattan. I was still wearing Barber's clothes and was now filled with his food. I'm not sure I was "impregnated with nutrient density...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Farm-to-Table Fetish | 8/15/2006 | See Source »

...Segway's executives are aware that novel technologies rarely establish themselves first in consumer markets. "It's a chicken or egg problem," says Klee Kleber, vice president of marketing. "People won't buy it until their peers do, and their peers won't buy one until they buy it." Marketers call this treacherous patch of a new product's path to the mass market "the chasm." Companies typically cross it by getting a foothold in a commercial market until consumers grow accustomed to the technology. The pager, for instance, was used mainly by doctors before everybody else caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Segway Riddle | 8/14/2006 | See Source »

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