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...before the sacred beasts are seven golden trays bearing, respectively, rice, maize, sesame, beans, rice wine, water and grass. What the cows eat - and don't eat - during the ancient Royal Plowing Ceremony predicts the upcoming year's harvest. Munching on rice is good, a signal of a bountiful crop to come. Forgoing water for rice wine could presage a drought, along with a possible surge in public drunkenness...
...casting call in Boston was a natural choice, according to casting director Kristina V. Gorolevich. The city’s proximity to many Ivy League schools makes it a hotbed for finding perfect contestants for the show, Gorolevich said. “Harvard is obviously the cream of the crop,” Gorolevich said. “We’re looking for not just extremely intelligent men, but with an interesting edge also,” she added, mentioning the many eccentric extracurriculars some students were in, such as paper-rock-scissors competitions. When asked...
...other programs devote more and more resources to the increasingly frenzied recruiting circuit, the two stalwarts no longer have a monopoly on the upper echelon of the Ivy-bound crop. Rosters are growing in depth, and young talent has diffused throughout the league...
...have a point--and not just because she's my niece. Wicked has tapped into a theme that seems to crop up in a lot of Broadway shows these days: stories of misfits or underdogs who prove their worth in spite of the odds. Hairspray revolves around a zaftig high school dance whiz who fights for racial integration and fat-girl power in 1962 Baltimore. The Color Purple, the Oprah-produced musicalization of Alice Walker's novel, is the uplifting story of an African-American girl's journey from abused teen to empowered adult. The action hero...
Percentage of the U.S. corn crop used for ethanol production in 2006. Corn, a key crop for food aid, will increasingly be used to make ethanol, thus further reducing the amount of food shipped...