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...Police noted a person “sleeping on the grass” by the side of 111 Western Avenue in Allston. The grass-sleeper was sent on his way with a no trespass warning for Harvard University property...
...being tested for thoroughly. Also, I believe in raising animals on pasture, which is the diet that nature intended for them to have. You hear the term "corn-fed beef" thrown around. Nothing could be worse for cattle than to eat corn. They're ruminants. They can turn grass into protein. Feeding them corn is a diet that's too rich for them. It makes them very ill and requires that they be fed a constant stream of antibiotics in their daily rations, to help them survive their feed...
Norquist, Abramoff and Reed first worked together in 1981 as members of the college Republicans organizing protests against communism in Poland. From there, the three rose steadily to the tops of their fields. Reed, as leader of the Christian Coalition, built a national grass-roots following of religious activists. Abramoff tapped into massive casino profits by representing newly rich tribes. And Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), established himself as the high priest of tax cuts...
...evoke a spirit that is a curious amalgam of Woodstock, the Olympic torch relay and a March of Dimes walkathon. Says Kragen: "Kids see it as a party. Yuppies see it as a return to activism The elderly see it as neighbor to neighbor Democrats as a challenge to grass-roots organizing, Republicans as voluntarism.' And for all of them it is a diverting way of finding contentment on a Sunday afternoon. --By Richard Stengel. Reported by Richard Woodbury/Los Angeles
Visitors who travel to Cambine are usually accompanied by squads of Mozambican soldiers toting AK-47 assault rifles. The settlement is protected by armed members of the local "home guard" militia. New arrivals build themselves grass-hut homes. Recently, a refugee named Joanna Cuevelo sat in front of a new hut, feeding her four children, whom she had just brought on foot to Cambine from a village 65 miles to the north. Her ten-year-old son, who was bitten by a cobra on the way, lay on a blanket, his face pinched and gray. "His mother won't part...