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...different breeds of pigs were raised for market in the 1930s; today, six of them are extinct. Only three varieties--Hampshire, Yorkshire and Duroc--account for 75% of U.S. production. In the 1920s, some 60 breeds of chickens thrived on American farms; today one hybrid, the Cornish Rock cross, supplies nearly every supermarket. A single turkey dominates: the Broad Breasted White, a fast-growing commercial creation with such a huge breast and short legs that it is unable to mate naturally...
...weddings Chang documents seem to have little in common with Western traditional notions of what a marriage should be: a photogenic celebration of love between soul mates, suitable for framing. These brokered arrangements are cross-border business transactions between a rich place and a poor country, set up to meet a consumer demand: man wants a wife; woman wants a better life. But ultimately the commodity being traded is the desire to find happiness with another, a wish embodied in every wedding, even ones with plastic champagne glasses and fake flowers. Chang exposes the tinsel promises of the marriage industry...
...been a steady customer since Sept. 11, as it moves troops and equipment from bases all around the world and back again--will spend $2 billion this year on such air transport, up from $772 million in 2000. In addition, such international agencies as the U.N. and the Red Cross turn to those airlines to get people and supplies into troubled parts of the world, whether conflict zones or areas with natural disasters like the Asian tsunami...
...thoughtful, soft-spoken tone, he discusses an incident of cross–burning outside his dorm in February of his freshman year—which had been conducted by his fellow freshmen as a “prank.” The five-foot-high burning cross was placed outside Stoughton Hall, where nine black students lived...
...Peaches. She was the first to be cast in Craig Monahan's just-released tale about a troubled teen working in a small-town peach cannery - but as the central figure's stepmother Jude. It was a seismic shift for McKenzie, whose character ages 20 years. "She had to cross a bridge," recalls Monahan. "She's smart, she knew the time was right and this was a good role to do it in. She ran towards it really." By turns warm and worn, McKenzie is a revelation as Jude, no more so than in the scene where she sings...