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...striking to see House Republicans distancing themselves from Bush now that the time had come to clean up the mess, because for eight years they've been his most loyal supporters on the economy, on Iraq, on just about everything except his efforts to rein in earmarks and farm subsidies...
...launched Tancredo have become an essential voting bloc. More than 100 different languages are now spoken in Aurora public schools, and the area boasts two Russian-language newspapers as well as half a dozen African grocery stores. "The county changed," explains Ritter, who grew up on a small wheat farm near Aurora. "Working-class families moved in and became the anchor to Arapahoe...
...Brunswick, N.J., restaurateurs Mark Pascal and Francis Schott, who run Catherine Lombardi Restaurant and host The Restaurant Guys radio show, are devoted to farm-to-table cuisine. They use their own preserved produce at the restaurant all winter long, storing the jewel-toned jars in their wine racks, and they're currently on track to put up about 10,000 lbs. of locally grown San Marzano plum tomatoes for use this winter. Ever economical, Pascal and Schott also dip into leftover canning liquid, especially from fruits, to jazz up cocktails at the bar. Months ago, they put up nectarines with...
...from his volume ‘The Spirit Level,’ published in 1996. Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland, a place which continues to influence his poetry as both a setting and a mental state. Although he grew up on a farm and went to a country primary school, he won a scholarship to a Catholic grammar school in 1951, leaving the farm for good. He began teaching at St. John’s College in Belfast in 1963, where he began publishing poetry. Only one year after publishing his first volume of poetry...
...sell to dairies and distributors are struggling to survive because the market has dried up. "We are trying to find other buyers, or sell directly to consumers, but no luck so far," says a farmer named He who owns about 1,000 cows on a Shanxi province collective farm. "I have 300-400 cows in production, and it's just not possible to store the fresh milk," he says. Over the past week, He has resorted to pouring out the surplus. Some farmers are considering slaughtering their animals to cut their mounting losses. He is trying to liquidate his herd...