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Jiang thinks chickens - along with Chinese urbanites' growing hunger for expensive organic food - might be one answer. For the last two years, he has been running a pilot project in an Inner Mongolian village in which six dozen households have started populating their grasslands with chickens instead of hundreds of goats or sheep. More than 10,000 free-range chickens have fed on the grasslands' insects and plants, and then fertilized the land, restoring plant life and creating organic meat and eggs that can be sold at a premium. "Rich people in cities consume these products, and the money will...
...Obama's campaign merchandise in January, he imagined a few T shirts, maybe some buttons. While driving to his company's headquarters in Greenville, Ohio, hours after Obama announced his presidential run, Baltes checked in with the operators of his website. "Any orders yet?" he asked, expecting maybe a dozen. The answer shocked him: "Four thousand...
...take her shoddy material with her), and has quietly reinvented the entire concept of the sitcom with a budget of roughly $25 and a cast of one. Without delving into the world of “wacky voices,” her show features a cast of roughly a dozen characters, all deftly played by the inestimable Ms. Bamford. It all hinges on elegantly cheap editing and rich character illustrations—oh, and also she’s really funny. But what keeps you coming back for more is the fact that, beneath the technical innovation and hilarious writing...
...country's traditional oligarchy is made up of a dozen families that have intermarried for generations to, as they say, "keep the blood pure." But as those families have grown, migrated and diversified in recent generations, their collective clout as a social elite has weakened. Today, an oligarchic last name no longer guarantees its bearer the influence or money once attached...
...Graham, who has been to Iraq nearly a dozen times, including spending 11 days in August on duty as a reserve Air Force officer, pointed out that Washington has spent the last few weeks debating Iraq policy and emerged with a commitment to continuing the surge through the spring. That commitment, he said, is the green light for the Iraqis to finally take action on resolving their disagreements...