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...elsewhere in Europe fans have got uglier. Some in France direct taunts known as "cris des singes"--monkey yelps--at the growing crop of African players, who face similar insults in Spain and Italy. In France top club Paris St.-Germain has hard-core neo-Nazi fans who chant racist and homophobic slurs and bombard visiting players with objects of all kinds...
...worked and traveled for a year. He then took the unusual step of returning to the family farm where his father and great-uncle still work in the corn and soybean fields and his mom handles the bookkeeping. In the face of soaring costs and fluctuating crop prices, family farms nationwide have faced increasing difficulty, and many have shut down. Since his return, Mitchell has morphed his old farm into a technological experiment--making the farm economically stronger and environmentally sound. "The technology has allowed much larger benefits," he says...
...return of tomatoes was sudden—the higher quality crop was unavailable as of last Thursday, said Breslin...
...said the new crop comes from Florida, where hurricanes—combined with floods in California and torrential rains in Mexico—limited the availability of earlier crops and produced low-quality and exorbitantly expensive tomatoes...
...We’re not forecasting another interruption in the crop,” Breslin said...