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...lately enjoyed a bit of a comeback, spurred by rising prices at the supermarket and the general urge to go green, and it's gained fans especially among young, urban foodies, who are keen to eat organic, locally grown or homemade foods. Jarden Home Brands, which makes the familiar Ball brand of jars for home preserving, says it has seen retail sales rise 28% over last year...
...main fault line is a familiar one: illegal immigration. McCain and his allies in Arizona, including most of the state's congressional delegation (though it unanimously voted Monday against the Wall Street bailout plan pushed by McCain) and many of the state's leading business interests, favor a dual approach combining enforcement and a path to citizenship. The rambunctious populist wing of the state GOP, led in part by state representative Russell Pearce from Mesa, favors a much tougher stance of deportations first and foremost...
...year wore on and our French greetings turned to lengthier French banter, and still I could not understand why our acquaintance should bring them such joy. Then I realized that they were probably homesick. That it was nice to have someone to talk with about familiar things, like plantains, and Creole, and warm weather. My next revelation was that seeing my friends at CVS also brought me joy, and that it was presumably because I was just as homesick as they were.At Harvard, almost all of us live far from home. For the class of 2012, 82.6% of students come...
...He’s an elitist whose Ivy-League background and experience in an Indonesian school need to be counterbalanced by his often-repeated “only in America” biography. There is something troubling in the continued emphasis on our candidates being ordinary and familiar, never wise and extraordinary, on being baby-havers, not baby-kissers. McCain’s choice of running mate was a nod to the religious right and to frustrated Hillary supporters, to be sure. But more than that, it was a concession to the contingent of American voters, growing in size...
...House drew closer to a vote, Blunt called House majority leader Steny Hoyer to express concern that they might not have the votes. "They thought that momentum would carry it and both sides would keep working; that was the way they left it," said one Democratic leadership aide familiar with the conversation. "No Republican ever asked to pull the bill...