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...Peterson knows a thing or two about the struggles of the family farm. After losing his northern Illinois farm, and a sizeble majority of his land, in the 1980s due to a combination of skyrocketing interest rates, mounting bank loans and underperforming crops, Peterson was poised years later to fail a second time as he tried to farm his remaining acreage. But in the early '90s, he found salvation in an unlikely place: a small but passionate group of environmentally minded Chicago shoppers who happened to be on the hunt for a rural farmer rich in organic produce...
...what should be done? If the new course charted by Israel and the White House--of coddling Abbas and slapping down Hamas--seems likely to fail, what might succeed? In the long run, squeezing the Gaza Strip won't help moderate Palestinians any more than pushing democracy on them did. Avoiding a takeover of the Palestinian cause by even more radical elements will instead require a more pragmatic and clear-eyed strategy than the Bush Administration has so far pursued. And that means that sooner or later, the U.S. and Israel will have to find a way to engage with...
...want to be remembered as the Ralph Nader of 2008, the long-shot candidate who acted as a spoiler to help tip an election. He's been a popular and effective Mayor, and he's got the money to finance a dozen campaigns, but independent campaigns tend to fail - partly because getting on the ballot in all 50 states is an excruciating process no matter how rich the candidate is. He'd probably need to win an outright majority to keep the election out of the partisan House, and it's not clear where a pro-gay-marriage...
Losing weight is an uphill battle - especially for the morbidly obese. Diet and exercise often fail. Drugs are not very effective. And in the end, many people suffer for years only to be left with one last and very expensive resort: surgery. That was certainly the case with Shawn Tarman, a 42-year-old woman from Willow Grove, Penn., who says she'd tried absolutely everything to lose weight. She finally resorted to gastric bypass surgery, a procedure that shrinks the stomach, and lost over 100 pounds...
...memoirs - the English translation of which bears the weirdly exculpatory title In the Eye of the Storm - Waldheim had simply skipped over his three years of military service in the Balkans. I couldn't fathom how anyone's experiences in a time and place like that could fail to figure in any honest account of a life. When Waldheim made a point of showing me that he was reading Thomas Keneally's Schindler's List - the movie had been released there just a week or so before our interview - I developed a strong sense that we'd talked long enough...