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...vehicle for that network is his Family Planning Services, an organization funded by the Thai government and private grants from foundations in Japan, Canada and the U.S. The group has recruited residents of 16,000 villages to peddle pills and condoms: rice farmers, shopkeepers, silk weavers, fruit vendors, at least one undertaker and a golf caddy. "They are all respected people in the community," he says. "They are trusted." The volunteer family planners also help run Mechai's nonpregnancy agricultural credit program, which offers low-cost loans to farmers who avoid pregnancy until the loan is repaid...
...would suppose) with red crayon. One of the minor technical mysteries surrounding Leonardo's work was how he made his chalk hard enough to hold a needle point when sharpened. The steadiness of his hand was almost inhuman-helped, no doubt, by the diet of fruit and water he was always recommending to others, and by his justified refusal to have anything to do with Florentine doctors. Until well into his 60s, he was producing postage-stamp drawings, such as his studies of the Adda River in Lombardy, whose intensity of detail can hardly be appreciated by the naked...
...side of Las Ramblas stands the Mercado de San Jose, and enormous market with a country fair atmosphere. Fresh fruit--a pound of strawberries for 40 cents--and cheese, dried meat and livestock, and row after row of counters piled high with Spanish produce fill the lively mercado...
...someone whose life was filled with grand passion and frightening complexity, prison routine may prove deadening. Harris will rise at 6:30 a.m. and eat a breakfast of cereal, fruit, toast and occasionally bacon and eggs. Then she will do manual work: cleaning, floor mopping, dish washing. For clothes, she can choose between jumpers and slacks of mint green, yellow or beige. Luncheon and dinner entrees include meat loaf, Swiss steak, stuffed cabbage and similar hearty fare not common to the Tarnower table. In the evenings she will be allowed to wear her own blouses, stockings, shoes and a watch...
From the porch of the bungalow Franz could watch the waves roll in. The palms were bending in the soft steady wind and the air was redolent with a sweet blend of fruit and sea. Franz felt as if he had been rescued from the real world...