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...Cheez Whiz. But as American tastes are becoming more worldly, U.S. cheesemakers are increasingly producing Bries, mozzarellas and blues that can hold their own on fromage platters all over the planet. Competing against entries from 19 other nations at the recent 2002 World Championship Cheese Contest, American-made cow's-milk cheeses won 49 awards, nearly one-third more prizes than in 2000. Ten years ago, there were only a handful of American specialty-cheese makers challenging Velveeta for American taste buds; currently there are more than 250 artisanal cheesemakers (many of whom are profiled in the encyclopedic book...
...year and a half ago, MIT bought Tech Square—a bustling center for biotech in Cambridge—a move that surprised and angered city councillors, who feared the non-profit institution would take the cash cow off of the property tax rolls...
DIED. SAM SNEAD, 89, plainspoken golf great known for his straw hat and smooth swing, called the "sweetest" in the game; in Hot Springs, Va. Slammin' Sam, as he was dubbed, learned to play in a cow pasture using sticks as clubs. He won a record 81 PGA Tour events (17 of them after he had turned 40), including three PGA championships, three Masters and a British Open. "Watching Sam Snead practice hitting golf balls," said fellow pro John Schlee, "is like watching a fish practice swimming...
When German farms were hit last year by outbreaks of foot-and-mouth and "mad cow" disease, Renate Künast - Germany's newly appointed Minister of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture - had a ready response: increase the country's organic, nature-friendly agriculture from 2% of farms to around 20% in what she called a drive for "class instead of mass." But German consumers discovered last week that buying pricey organic products is no protection against tainted food. Officials reported that large amounts of organic animal feed used by 120 organic farms in Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, North...
When the Taliban were done dynamiting the two colossal stone Buddhas of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, they partied hard. They danced, hooted and slaughtered a cow. But Syed Mirza Hussain wasn't celebrating. A Hazara Afghan with Mongolian features and a rusty beard, Hussain had been forced by the Taliban to pack explosives around the statues. The Taliban warned that if he refused, he would be shot. It was a threat that Hussain, a Shi'ite Muslim hated by the Sunni Taliban, took seriously. Earlier, a Taliban fighter had gunned down Hussain's two boys like stray dogs crossing...