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...distribution of revenue. She had been at loggerheads with the owners, who have recently been accused of taking a more conservative approach to the news and trying to rein in some of the magazine's more aggressive reporting. While the 11-year-old magazine had been a cash cow for the media group, it had received a smaller share of the revenues, according to current and former staffers. "The parent company milks it for a huge chunk of their revenue," says a former staffer. "She's been cash-strapped trying to do new projects." (See pictures from the 60th anniversary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's 'Most Dangerous Woman' Gets a New Forum | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

...thankfully, to children). Enforcing them could be problematic, since identifying "Swiss-ness" is sometimes not as easy at it seems. Just ask McDonald's. Its campaign to assure customers that its ingredients are 100% "aus der Schweiz" took a knock last July when it emerged that the cow used in a poster was in fact Austrian. But then cows aren't the only Swiss animals having an identity crisis. (Read: "Supersizing Europe: The McDonald's Stimulus Plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Identity Crisis for the Swiss | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...would milk the cows in the morning and drink the warm milk,” D’Ambrosia says. “We butchered a cow while I was there...

Author: By Erika T. Butler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rower Comes Back From Organic Farm | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

...cow and pig manure was used for compost, and every scrap of food went into the pigs’ slop or compost pile...

Author: By Erika T. Butler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rower Comes Back From Organic Farm | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

Hollis Research Professor of Divinity Harvey G. Cox, who brought a cow to the Tercentenary Theater earlier this year in celebration of his retirement, spoke about the role of religion a society that suffers from “cultural attention deficit syndrome?...

Author: By JOANNE S. WONG, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Book Festival Draws Crowd | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

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