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...also Lesson 2: Make money. Stone Barns devotes more than half the space in the greenhouse to salad greens not only because they will flourish there without the use of chemicals but also because they draw a good price in a health-conscious place like Westchester County. (Despite the close links, Barber insists that the Stone Barns farm sells its produce to his Blue Hill restaurants at fair-market value. The farm also sells to retail customers at a small but busy on-site market...
...boxing terms, Israel's war with Hizballah is heading for a draw. The U.N. Security Council cease-fire proposal has sounded the bell for the last round, with the combatants having hurt each other, but never landing a decisive blow - or appearing likely to. The remainder of the bout will see a flurry of punches thrown by both fighters in the hope of persuading the judges to award a victory on points...
...have to convince their increasingly skeptical citizens that the war has been won. It's hardly surprising, then, that Israel is using the interlude before the truce takes effect - Israeli officials are reported as saying that moment will come at 7am on Monday - to drive deep into Lebanon to draw whatever blood and teeth as they can from Hizballah. Even that may not be enough to sway an Israeli public openly doubtful that the war has been won. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has seen his poll numbers take a dive similar to those of President Bush, from upward...
Style aside, Viz Media contends that true manga is made only in Japan--which isn't surprising, since Viz has access to Japanese titles. Tokyopop CEO Stu Levy disagrees: "Manga is like hip-hop. It's a lifestyle. To say that you can't draw it because you don't have the DNA is just silly...
...because you don't have people crossing borders, which would make them easier to detect, since they're already integrated and often in very tight communities" says Will Geddes, managing director of ICP Group, an international security consultancy. "The more extreme groups tend to isolate themselves. I hate to draw this analogy, but it's a bit like with pedophile rings. They remain in their own isolated community, in a similar way to terrorists, in the way that you could have two cells that are literally a street apart but won't necessarily know of each other's existence...