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...packing up and hitting the road. After graduating from Illinois State a year ago, he moved from employment-parched Chicago to Des Moines, Iowa, where he took a position as an underwriter at Allied Insurance. He loves the job and was pleasantly surprised that Des Moines is less a "farm town" than "a small Chicago." For actuary Ronen Twiss, 33, of Teaneck, N.J., the answer became clear when he was laid off during an industry nosedive...
...Agriculture Department official, who just returned from Iraq and is worried that the country's farmers might take to the streets. "It does not want the violence to spill over into the countryside." Haj Abdul Wahab al-Bunnia, 82, patriarch of a family-run agribusiness empire in Iraq that farms 25,000 acres and employs 6,000 people, has the same concerns. "We need to get people off the city streets and back onto the farms," he says. "With incentives, we can do this. But if there is no farm work and farmers have nothing to do, they will take...
...consumer, overwhelmed with products, services and information, is not the passive participant of yesteryear's business-to-consumer equation. In the emerging paradigm, the consumer plays an active role, which means companies need to create value with--not for--the customer. Thus at Deere the strategy moves from selling farm machines to all-out field management. The authors call it the consumer-to-business-to-consumer model...
...things go awry when Elphaba finds herself on the wrong side of the not-so-wonderful Wizard. He tricks her into using her spells to enslave the animals of the realm. She's turned into a pariah--even Glinda abandons her--and, as if that weren't enough, some farm girl's house has fallen smack on her sister...
...just 500,000 cubic meters are subsequently treated. The rest is simply poured into the klongs. As only 2% of homes in Bangkok are connected to proper sanitation systems, most of the effluent is raw sewage. Tossed into the brew are toxic chemicals, restaurant discharges, paper, cans, dead farm animals?and the occasional human corpse. Bacterial contamination is anywhere from 75 to 400 times above permissible limits, according to a city government study. Fish and plant life disappeared a decade...