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...just a golfer, man. I chase a little white ball around and work on my farmer tan." Tiger Woods, American golf pro, after being asked whether he was the biggest celebrity at last week's U.S. Open
...Indonesia's war-ravaged province of Aceh, Bilal heard the shots in the early hours of June 3 but didn't dare to venture outside until well past dawn. The sight that greeted him is so commonplace in Aceh as to be almost banal: Ishak, a 51-year-old farmer who was standing watch over Alue Bieng that night, was sprawled on a wooden platform used by the village's night watchmen, his T shirt pocked with bullet holes. Beneath the platform lay a pool of blood and the brass casings of the seven bullets that killed...
...SOME TIME OR ANOTHER, the feeling washes over almost everyone who works in an office: the sudden urge to give it all up and become a farmer, winemaker or baseball player. Then reality sinks in--bills, the need for a stable job, bills--and the Great Dream becomes a passing fancy...
...HIFT’s initial successes was a gathering of 30 students in the parlor of Phillips Brooks House to listen to a farmer from Oaxaca, Mexico, discuss the benefits of fair trade to his community. Since then, HIFT has only gained notice...
...chives, micro cilantro and micro mint, and accents a vibrant orecchiette in green garlic curry with micro Thai basil. "Microgreens are a visual representation of spring, and I want my menu to taste like spring and look like spring," he says. Home cooks can find the bijou greens at farmer's markets and specialty grocers. --By Lisa McLaughlin