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...CULT OF THE SMALL FAMILY FARMER dates back to Thomas Jefferson, who hailed humble "cultivators of the earth" as America's "most valuable" and "most virtuous" citizens. Politicians still paint American Gothic portraits of the country folk who toil in the soil to grow our food and fiber. But at the Husker Harvest Days farm show in September in Grand Island, Neb., it was clear how far American agriculture had come from the days when Cornhuskers husked corn by hand...
...that we'd spend more on food in a world without subsidies and that dependence on foreign protein would be even worse than our dependence on foreign oil. "The subsidies help keep us in business, so we can play in the dirt and you don't have to grow your own food," says Ben Boyd, a Georgia cotton farmer who's active in the Farm Bureau. "It's not like we're all living in plantations like Tara, wearing fancy white suits like Colonel Sanders...
...Celebrity culture has led to crazed consumerism. Parents, wake up: corporations create Hannah Montana types to grow profits, not to help parents raise their children...
...YOUR HANDS DIRTY. Many volunteers want a connection with the folks they help. You can still put in time at the soup kitchen or mentor a child. Indeed, as foundations grow ever larger, there is ever more need for volunteers to put the programs into practice...
...used for many things because it can look at any interaction of any cell at any time,” Livet said. Lichtman hopes to use the new technique to better understand how the brain develops. “In mammals, wiring changes as we grow-up, and the connections made earlier begin to be trimmed,” he said. “We hope to understand this reorganization and get a better idea of how the brain selects which connections to maintain and which to lose...