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...Charlotte J. Kaiser '96, now consulting for the World Wildlife Fund in Washington D.C., the course was a chance to meet a Cape Cod cranberry farmer, a Vermont forester and a Costa Rican environmental official...
...Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington--have voted to legalize medicinal marijuana, federal law still requires them to prosecute any wheelchair-bound granny smoking a bong. But they aren't doing so, and that has federal drug czar Barry McCaffrey muttering about a new "Whiskey Rebellion," the unsuccessful 1794 farmer's revolt against federal liquor taxes...
...agribusiness, organic farming and Monsanto's genetic engineering of plants, began in September with sweet reason: "In the U.S. only 10.9% of the average American's income is spent on food. Compare this to Britain at 11.5%, Sweden 14.5%." Fairly quickly the discourse descended to a mudball fight. A farmer who thinks chemical fertilizers and pesticides are fine dismissed an organic farmer as a gardener and added, "Man, you drip of liberalism; it almost stinks." Another nonorganic disputant offered, "More than anything, I cannot STAND ignorant hysterics seeking to ban or destroy whatever technological innovation currently threatens their precarious emotional...
...regiments. Konecny sits at one of the 97 viewing stations and within a few minutes finds a faded entry showing that Solomon Seif served as a private in Company I of the 136th Infantry. From a second reel about Company I, she learns that as a 20-year-old farmer, he enlisted for 100 days in 1864, shortly before the war ended, and in 1885 he applied for a pension as an invalid...
...Although his prodigious gifts made for some hair-raising pianissimi, his playing lacked the requisite Schnabelian drive. He strove for a nearly pedal-free sound at times when more blurring would have been a relief, and he attacked the first movement cadenza with all the grace of an angry farmer. The effect was wild, precipitous, unique--but out of place. The second movement demonstrated Schiff's peerless trill technique, while the third hurdled toward a deft close as leprechaun-like as the diminutive pianist himself...