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...what will it take for sustainable food production to spread? It's clear that scaling up must begin with a sort of scaling down - a distributed system of many local or regional food producers as opposed to just a few massive ones. Since 1935, consolidation and industrialization have seen the number of U.S. farms decline from 6.8 million to fewer than 2 million - with the average farmer now feeding 129 Americans, compared with 19 people...
public option •finally, a simple explanation of •77 percent of the public is in favor of, as long as they're asked about it in a way that makes clear that "option" means there's a "choice" involved...
...lives his job. He would visit kids in the hospital. He went to the funeral of the grandmother of one of the kids he worked with. He would come in very early in the morning when working parents needed to see him before school started. He made it clear to them that if they had family problems, he was available at night...
...Force brass - leery of tangling with the U.S. military's most famous officer - declined to join the fracas. "It's clear the general's remarks were made in jest," says Air Force spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Tatiana Stead. "In that context there's really nothing that requires a response." It's plain the service would like to forget the whole thing. General Petraeus apparently agrees: that may be why the ponytail reference has vanished from the official text of his speech on his own U.S. Central Command website...
...Many of those who aren't convinced of Al-Megrahi's guilt say their greatest regret is that he abandoned the appeal to overturn his conviction last week, presumably to clear the way for his release. Juval Aviv, a private investigator who was hired by Pan Am's insurance company to investigate the bombing, tells TIME that "as time has passed, flaws in the trial and in the evidence used to convict Mr. Al-Megrahi have been revealed. A new trial could have shone a light on a lot of things that were buried in the rush to convict...