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...Chisholm, 62, has taken every precaution that he and the poultry industry can think of to protect his chicken farm in Pocomoke City, Md., from avian flu. After he gets up every morning at 5:30, he reads the paper, drinks a cup of coffee and heads out the door for the first of four inspections of his chicken houses about 30 yards away, keeping an eye open for sickly-looking birds. He also sprays his shoes with disinfectant when he goes to an area where other chicken farmers may be, washes down all trucks before they roll onto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guarding the Henhouse | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

...students about her roots in the business world as a member of the family that founded the Northeastern supermarket chain Stop & Shop. Worcester Mayor Tim Murray recounted his struggles as a local official against a hostile Republican state administration. Child psychiatrist Sam Kelley spoke of his boyhood on a chicken farm and his adult work as medical director of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children...

Author: By Benjamin J. Salkowe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lt. Gov. Hopefuls Make Their Pitches | 3/9/2006 | See Source »

Goldberg said she would “get Massachusetts going again.” Kelly, having earlier noted that his chicken farm duties once included shoveling manure, said he would work to “make it fertile for [high-tech companies] to be here...

Author: By Benjamin J. Salkowe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lt. Gov. Hopefuls Make Their Pitches | 3/9/2006 | See Source »

...would often share a booth with my two closest friends, as their parents had the same ritual of going to the café after church. As the adults sat at another table and talked about the upcoming high school boys’ basketball game, my friends and I ate chicken fingers and giggled over our elementary school crushes...

Author: By Brittney L. Moraski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Finding Faith in Grief | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

These people are all okay by me. It is the pseudo-vegetarians that really push my buttons. For many of these so-called vegetarians, commitment to the creed depends on mood. One friend of mine makes exceptions for steak, and another for chicken. One friend only eats meat when she’s drunk. These sorts of people are euphemistically called flexitarians, but what flexibility that is exactly is unclear—the flexibility to pass judgment on other people who eat meat, perhaps...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: My Beef with Vegetarians... | 3/7/2006 | See Source »

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