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...natural sciences (but no taste for fiction or the fine arts). He would quote Spinoza as if throwing rocks at a rival. Verbal battle, not dialogue, was his habitual mode of communication. Rather than a philosopher, he was a walking exclamation mark, a tight, craggy man with a halo of silvery hair and a jawbone that projected awesome willpower and a volcanic temper...
When organic supermarkets started springing up, their investors figured that the aisles would be populated by a nation of granola eaters eager to pay extra for the halo of purity. They were dead wrong. We remain a nation of committed Twinkie eaters even while welcoming organic foods to the table. Consumers aren't willing to pay a hefty premium for organic, nor do they want to give up any of the conveniences of shopping in large stores that stock everything from soup to lug nuts...
...occasionally one raises an arm, a whistle is blown, and everyone moves back carefully. The land mine just discovered is detonated remotely, an explosion jogs the ground, and the field officer gives the all-clear. Then the Cambodians, who work for a British-based de-mining organization called Halo Trust, resume methodically clearing the heavily mined land around the village, one square foot at a time...
...Doeum, 45, a villager whose right hand was blown off several years ago when he tried to pick up a mine, smiles at the Halo de-miners. Five villagers have stepped on mines in the past three years. "We have to go into the forest to get bamboo shoots and wood," he says. "Everyone is scared of mines, but if we don't go, the pot is empty. So it is good that they come here to take away mines. Next we want them to clear a way to the water." He points with the stump...
...union boss, but the very existence of the allegation ? that his campaign manager used a Massachusetts telemarketer to funnel $221,000 out of the Teamster treasury ? has stolen some of his thunder. "Carey's reputation as a reformer is shattered," says TIME's Bruce Van Voorst. "His halo is tarnished...