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...Fest that keeps his farm afloat. Started in 1990, with a pumpkin patch and hayrides, Siegel's fall festival has mushroomed into a full-fledged theme park complete with haunted barns, a petting zoo, a 10-acre corn maze and snacks such as smoked turkey legs, kettle corn and funnel cake. The festival attracts more than 30,000 visitors each fall and brings in three times the revenue of Siegel's 400 acres of corn, soybean and grain crops. "I still get to plant in the spring and harvest in the fall," says Siegel, "but I have four kids...
...rarely to his face) did what he does best: he hit back. "All right," DeLay replied. "Let's go. Let's go fight." Less than three hours later, before a roomful of reporters, DeLay addressed a Texas grand jury's charge that he and two political associates conspired to funnel $155,000 in illegal corporate campaign contributions into Texas legislative races. He called it "one of the weakest, most baseless indictments in American history" and the prosecutor who brought the case "a partisan fanatic." That night, anxious to show he's not a recluse, he introduced Rudy Giuliani...
...short for Alcohol Without Liquid), looks like an asthma inhaler and reputedly gets booze to the brain faster. Eighteen states have introduced legislation banning the device, and last week Kansas became the second state (after Colorado) to sign its bill into law. "This is the equivalent of putting a funnel at bars, inviting people to get drunker quicker," says Florida state senator Mike Haridopolos, who cosponsored that state's anti-AWOL bill...
...which students money almost exclusively funds HUDS operations. Under the current system, the BoardPlus surplus goes back into HUDS annual budget; it is money that has already been counted on in planning board budgets. The money from BoardPlus, which amounts to $100 per student per year, is expected to funnel into HUDS either through spending at HUDS-operated cafes or through the surplus. If the surplus money were to be directed elsewhere, HUDS would be running on a deficit. The obvious result would be an increase in student dining fees across the board next year, since the missing BoardPlus funds...
...idea works in Chongqing, so the new reasoning goes, it should work elsewhere in China. The notion that factories should be allowed to funnel some of their profits back into expansion, for instance, was first tried in Chongqing. So was another innovation: decreasing the decision-making power of political cadres in plants and increasing the power of local managers. Observes Long Zeyuan, deputy director of the city's economic-system reform commission: "In the old days, all the decisions were made on a political level by people who didn't think about profit or prices or market conditions...