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...pending disaster" says Tom Nassif, president and CEO of Western Growers, which represents 3,000 farmers that grow, pack, and ship half of the nation's fresh fruit, vegetables and nuts. Already, he says, California's Central San Joaquin Valley is missing about 70,000 of the workers it needs. Growers worry that the lack of manpower will next hit the $1 billion winter lettuce crop in the border region between California's Imperial Valley and the Yuma Valley in Arizona...
...tend to be shy and retiring. Not so these two. Warren, known for his absolute loyalty to the bolo tie, wasn?t afraid to go out on a limb for an improbable idea. Back in 1979, Warren, who was then working at Royal Perth Hospital, observed a spiral bacteria growing in the stomachs of people with gastritis, or inflammation of the stomach. He became the butt of jokes among his colleagues, who knew-it was right there in all the textbooks-that nothing could grow in the acid environment of the stomach...
Bass-fishing enthusiasts, however, aren't cyclical. Next year ESPN's Bassmaster is adding a women's league and an open lite series worth $11 million in prize money. ESPN is also increasing its coverage. And next December, probably in a California reservoir where the bigmouths grow to 20 lbs., some angler will reel in a lunker that will be worth a million FLW bucks, televised coast to coast. "I didn't create this need. I recognized it," says Jacobs, who has far bigger businesses in his portfolio that could occupy his time. But he's standing...
...creature that can grow up to 13 m, with tentacles as long as a city bus and eyeballs the size of a human head shouldn't be that hard to find. But scientists have never caught a glimpse of a live giant squid in the wild. The cephalopod's reign as the Greta Garbo of the undersea world, however, is over: last week two Japanese scientists?Tsunemi Kubodera and Kyoichi Mori?published the first photographs of a giant squid in action, captured by a robotic camera 900 m below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. For obsessive squid hunters...
Down the road, at Thai restaurant Spice, waitress Panja Leymswan was more willing to accept Harvard’s two-to-one tree compensation. “The plan is good as long as the trees are replaced. It takes time for the trees to grow but they will grow,” she said...