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...Kansas tenant farmer, Parks was working as a railway-car waiter in the 1930s when he picked up a magazine left by a passenger and had his first look at images of the Depression-era U.S. made by Dorothea Lange and other Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographers. Within a few years, he had bought a camera and started making portraits. By 1942 he was in Washington as an FSA photographer. On his first day there, Parks was refused service at a clothing store, theater and restaurant because he was black. He channeled his anger into his first famous photograph, made...
...Chisholm, 62, has taken every precaution that he and the poultry industry can think of to protect his chicken farm in Pocomoke City, Md., from avian flu. After he gets up every morning at 5:30, he reads the paper, drinks a cup of coffee and heads out the door for the first of four inspections of his chicken houses about 30 yards away, keeping an eye open for sickly-looking birds. He also sprays his shoes with disinfectant when he goes to an area where other chicken farmers may be, washes down all trucks before they roll onto...
...testing some birds in every flock for the most dangerous types of avian flu before they leave the chicken house to be slaughtered. All the birds in an infected flock would be put down immediately, and the surrounding area quarantined. "Our strategy is to keep sick birds on the farm," says Richard Lobb of the National Chicken Council. "Once the virus escapes into the environment, it's very hard to control...
...about her roots in the business world as a member of the family that founded the Northeastern supermarket chain Stop & Shop. Worcester Mayor Tim Murray recounted his struggles as a local official against a hostile Republican state administration. Child psychiatrist Sam Kelley spoke of his boyhood on a chicken farm and his adult work as medical director of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children...
Goldberg said she would “get Massachusetts going again.” Kelly, having earlier noted that his chicken farm duties once included shoveling manure, said he would work to “make it fertile for [high-tech companies] to be here...