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...want a critic for a guide, this may be the festival for you. Each April in Champaign, Ill., the TV and Chicago Sun-Times film reviewer selects movies--from the famed to the obscure, like U-Carmen eKhayelitsha--that he feels have fallen through the cracks...
...milk production, which is climbing 20% to 30% annually. "It's the 10,000-lb. cow in my life," says Hirshberg. To find enough organic milk, Stonyfield Farm subsidizes farmers as they convert to organic production and offers price guarantees on the milk it buys. "Conventional-milk pricing has fallen to levels not seen since the 1970s," says Hirshberg. "It's a disastrous situation for farmers with a cost structure based on 2006 energy costs." The only silver lining, he says, is that it has helped some dairy farmers recognize that organic is the way to go. But many...
Strolling the ramparts of the mountaintop pousada (inn) in his Army-issue shorts and thongs, rebel commander Alfredo Reinado is directing an effort to besiege Dili. Mobile phone glued to his ear, he mutters orders to subordinates 45 km away, who are fighting to recover the body of a fallen companion. "I want to see the battle," he says, "but my men will not let me. They are worried for my safety...
...April 29 in the Indonesian village of Kubu Sembilang in north Sumatra. The woman had become sick on April 27, and as she worsened, several family members slept in the same small room as she did. By the first week of May six more members of the family had fallen ill with avian flu. The first woman died on May 4 and was buried before any tissue samples could be taken, but doctors were able to confirm H5N1 in the remaining family members, all but one of whom have died. An eighth family member, a 32-year-old man, became...
...about what would happen if gays had the right to marry - the threats to conventional marriage, a weakening of the family, the meltdown of society as we know it. Yet as hard as social conservatives have trolled for evidence of fissures in the heavens, the sky has not yet fallen over Massachusetts, where more than 7,000 same-sex couples have legally married since May 17, 2004. In fact, this time around, Senate lawmakers have more than rhethoric; they have some scientific data collected and analyzed by academic researchers about what it's really like in a state that actually...