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...universe, especially agriculture and diet. Biodynamic farming thus combines organic practices--like the banning of pesticides and chemicals--with somewhat mystical ideas such as basing planting and harvesting schedules on the position of the moon, sun and stars. It's full of colorful details like burying a cow horn filled with manure at the autumnal equinox. One Italian biodynamic vintner has even placed loudspeakers around his vineyards. Although he claims that playing Mozart makes his vines grow quicker and healthier, the more perceptible result of blaring Symphony No. 40 in G Minor is that it scares the bejesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virtuous Vino | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

Alongside a cow pasture in 1636, what would one day be a world-renowned institution—Harvard College—was born. Things got off to a shaky start. The school’s first leader, Master Nathaniel Eaton, neither spared the rod nor spoiled the child. In fact, he beat a child severely...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Doherty, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Turning a New Page | 2/14/2007 | See Source »

...technical school, the target of the meeting was Tao Feng, the former chief accountant of our office. After several hours of speeches denouncing Shell and the ''running dogs of imperialism,'' Tao Feng was led into the room wearing a tall dunce cap made of white paper with COW'S DEMON AND SNAKE SPIRIT written on it. (In Chinese mythology, these are evil spirits that can assume human forms to do mischief. Mao had first used this expression during the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957 to describe the intellectuals, many of whom were sent to labor camps for having taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life and Death in Shanghai | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

...speaker showed how eight deer can be raised for venison at the cost of feeding one cow. Other topics covered: growing garbanzo beans, converting corn into lighter fluid and raising edible snails and crayfish. The farmers were interested, though some were skeptical. "A lot of good ideas got thrown around here," said Ed Ackerman of Minnesota. "But the bottom line is profit. Anybody can raise a crop, but you can't succeed unless you can sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Notes: Dec. 15, 1986 | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...can’t even collide with a cow without people noticing,” she later told a friend of two and a half decades, Yale anthropology professor Richard L. Burger...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Will These Cowboy Boots March West? | 1/8/2007 | See Source »

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