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...Restoring the link between the farm and the table is an ambition shared by a growing number of restaurants. That?s also not new: it was the driving idea behind the fresh-above-all restaurants that launched the U.S. food revolution in the 1970s and ?80s. But most of those pioneering restaurants - led by chef Alice Waters? Chez Panisse - were in California, where anything can grow and where it would be silly not to supply a restaurant from a nearby farm...
...until their peers do, and their peers won't buy one until they buy it." Marketers call this treacherous patch of a new product's path to the mass market "the chasm." Companies typically cross it by getting a foothold in a commercial market until consumers grow accustomed to the technology. The pager, for instance, was used mainly by doctors before everybody else caught on. PCs, VCRs, GPS: each crossed the chasm as the price dropped and their utility became obvious...
...television reporter. What are the consequences? Goodman, who has been suspended from his journalism duties, could face up to two years in prison and substantial fines if convicted. And News Corporation honcho Rupert Murdoch's publication could be left looking for a new chief royal correspondent. Could the scandal grow? The Metropolitan Police first conducted a small investigation into the Goodman affair. But it charged its antiterror unit with a larger probe in light of indications that many prominent politicians, actors and athletes - often devout mobile-phone users - might also have been compromised. Phone companies O2 and Vodafone have been...
...Heading north, the structures seem to grow taller, until they turn into massive domes and spires. The largest mounds hold upward of a million insects working in blind harmony. Mounds can reach 7 m high and 12 m around the base, and may have taken a century or more of painstaking construction. The termites mix a drop of saliva with soil, plant matter and excrement and deposit it like a tiny brick; somehow, in the darkness, each knows where to place its contribution to form the maze of tunnels and chambers that harden like concrete...
...wand. For birthday parties, she hosts "magical picnics" on the red-and-white concrete toadstools in the "fairy garden." Some of the children have gray hair. "When elderly people come in, I give them a fairy wish and their faces light up," Gadenne says. "None of us wants to grow...