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...some 300 years, however, sugaring stuck close by that rural idyll. Early settlers in the U.S. Northeast and Canada learned about sugar maples from Native Americans. Various legends exist to explain the initial discovery. One is that the chief of a tribe threw a tomahawk at a tree, sap ran out and his wife boiled venison in the liquid. Another version holds that Native Americans stumbled on sap running from a broken maple branch...
...living on - especially for a candidate who loses. And while it wouldn't be seemly for a Secretary of State to be out there personally collecting checks on the rubber-chicken circuit, Hillary Clinton is lucky enough to have some big names willing to do something close to that on her behalf...
...also cut her debt to Penn, Schoen & Berland - which stood at close to $5.4 million at the end of last year - by more than half. At some point, though, what's left of the Clinton campaign operation may, in Paster's words, "hit a wall." At that time, the law allows her to seek the FEC's permission to renegotiate the terms of her indebtedness to the company. But that's a conversation for another day, Paster says, adding, "For now, we expect to be paid...
...more desperate for external cash infusions now that its economy has flatlined. Vietnam has also racked up a massive trade deficit with China. As more Chinese companies venture across the border and sink millions into new investment projects, Hanoi can't dictate all the terms. Nor can they just close the spigot. "The Vietnamese have to be careful of what they wish for," says Thayer...
...Qasab, 21, looked older than he appears in the globally circulated pictures captured of him during the Mumbai attacks, when he walked through the city's main railway station in cargo pants, brandishing weapons. Sabahuddin, 25, a head taller than Qasab, extremely thin and wearing a bushy beard and close-cropped hair, also agreed to his new representation. He filled the time during lulls in the proceedings by reading a January issue of the newsmagazine India Today, at one point apparently engrossed in a story about Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's health. In the end, Ansari, 35, also agreed...