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...super seniors are not of the repeat 12th grade variety, but rather have generally taken a semester or two off to experience life outside of the ivy gates. Some work, while others jet set for a year. One super senior even spent a term laboring on a goat farm in New Zealand. Such adventures are a somewhat common phenomenon: the Administrative Board approved 171 leave of absence petitions, according to the Board’s 2006-2007 Guide For Students. “A lot of my friends are still here,” says Visual and Environmental Studies concentrator...
...there are questions that the government's free-market economic godfathers, always on the prowl for a rent-seeker or free-loader, could be asking. Where do you draw the line between a sustainable farm and an unsustainable one? It's a judgment that has been made on entire industries in the past, when governments removed or cut the tariffs that protected the manufacturing sector. Why prop up farmers who are bad managers or whose poor practices on unproductive land are hurting the environment? The signals drought policy sends to good farmers are certainly mixed. And how come...
...says. "It's like if I set up a small shop on the outskirts of town and then Coles comes along. Would the government protect me?" Observers foresee a day of reckoning brought about by agricultural consolidation. Foreign investors, such as major hedge funds, are picking up prime farm land (and paying good prices), the banker says, because the returns from it are traditionally higher than from the share market...
While federal testers found traces of the deadly E. coli strain in cow manure near a California spinach farm earlier this month, it is still unclear how the bacterium made its way into the processing plant...
...Everything seemed to be going wrong for Bush last week, even the metaphors. On the way to the Allen fund raiser, we stopped for a photo op at a picturesque farm stand outside Richmond. There was a pile of pumpkins sitting on a flatbed truck, and both Allen and Bush tried to hoist an aesthetically pleasing pumpkin by the stem. Both stems snapped. "If you break it, you pay for it, Mr. President," said Richard Keil of Bloomberg News, echoing Colin Powell's famous rule at the outset of the Iraq war. Bush didn't seem to get the joke...