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Fred W. Friendly, the esteemed former CBS News president who collaborated with Edward R. Murrow on some of TV's most groundbreaking documentaries, died Tuesday in New York after a series of strokes. He was 82. Friendly was the behind-the-scenes force on such documentaries as "Harvest of Shame" in 1961, about migrant farm workers, and the Murrow "See It Now" report that hastened the downfall of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. "He was my No. 1 cheerleader back to legitimacy," Geraldo Rivera, who was a student of Friendly's at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, told the Associated...
...friendly culture will soon be put to a severe test as a second wave of competitors emerges. In Boston, where Whole Foods has held sway with its five Bread and Circus stores, Star Markets, a billion-dollar conventional chain, has recently opened four natural and organic Wild Harvest supermarkets. Meanwhile, Wild Oats, while not as large, grew 75% last year and looks to become a formidable rival. In spite of that, Mackey still sees supermarkets as his main competition: chains like Albertson's and Safeway have vastly increased their natural-foods offerings. Such chains, however, may actually help organic stores...
...example, those looking for that perfect tablecloth are inundated with options. Even before choosing a pattern or color, the customer must select the proper shape and size of cloth. Many shoppers may require guidance when considering the many options: the cafe, breakfast, European, dinner, printed round, topper, and harvest cloth. One ought never fear, though, a handy diagram explains all the pertinent differences, clearly indicating how the cafe cloth creates "the perfect table for romantic bistro dining" while European is most appropriate when holding "smaller dinner parties the way Europeans...
Sometimes there can be a wide gulf between the two. In Australia, for example, El Nino caused extremely dry conditions that for a while last year had farmers contemplating suicide. But as it turns out, some rain did fall--just in time to rescue the wheat harvest from disaster. Does that mean the drought predictions were wrong? Not at all, says Nicholas Graham, a climate modeler at the University of California at San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Think of what El Nino does as the equivalent of rigging a roulette wheel so that it comes up black...
...Harvest Moon Festival also flopped "becausestudents were just not interested," he added...