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...Already a best seller in France, Pork & Sons won the Grand Prix de la Gastronomie Française and is being published in English in time for the newly dawned Year of the Pig. Part cookbook, part personal narrative, it reflects the allegiances of its author, Stéphane Reynaud, a self-taught chef who was born into the meat business. "I love the pig and like the pork," he writes. While his musings about pigs are affectionate, Reynaud, 40, avoids sentimentality by refusing to gloss over the animal's journey from pen to plate. Instead he makes a feature...
...around two figures: Mehdi Karroubi, a moderate cleric who was once Speaker of Parliament, and Rafsanjani, the powerful former President, who prizes economic growth over democracy and Islamic ideology. Ahmadinejad also has problems outside Tehran. In the holy city of Qum, south of the capital, Ahmadinejad has offended the grand ayatullahs, who act as the country's spiritual leaders. Most irritating have been his frequent allusions to his connection to the Hidden Imam, the last in a line of descendants of the Prophet Muhammad, who Shi'ites believe will return at the end of the world to bring absolute justice...
Harvard currently holds 21st place in RecycleMania’s “Grand Champion” competition with a 31.21 percent recycling rate...
...advisor to several U.S. presidents, Rockefeller dealt with issues concerning ecology and environmental preservation. He founded the American Conservation Association, and funded the expansion of Grand Teton National Park. In 1991, Rockefeller was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his effots. In 1992 he and his wife donated their Vermont home to the National Park Service; it was later turned into the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, a museum dedicated to the history of environmental conservation. Rockefeller died...
...response to the dismal economic conditions of the black community to which Americans have turned their spite. America—for all of its grand ideals such as social equality, class mobility, and equal opportunity—has labeled a whole race of people as second-class citizens...