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...officials have established new narco-terrorism squads in New York City and other field offices, and are expanding domestic investigations into drug rings with links to al-Qaeda, Hizballah and other terrorist groups. Operation Containment is a response to recent intelligence reports that next spring's Afghan poppy harvest, which was just planted, will be at least as big as this year's newsmaking haul and may match the record 3,656-metric-ton harvest of 2000. That year Afghan growers, backed by the Taliban, cornered as much as 80% of the world heroin market. Afghan warlords are once again...
...confirmed this was his first time trying to make cider, though pressing and fermenting fruits is old hat to him. Last year, Max spent time in France and Italy during the grape harvest, stomping grapes to make wine. “I got interesting in pressing things, so my dad’s friend had an antique press he gave me, and we went out apple picking around Harvard, Mass.,” Morange says. Morange and his friends, fellow competitors Danny Koski-Karell and Eric Brown, pressed the fresh apples in the Kirkland courtyard, and then Morange...
Like the end of the harvest, we come to the last of our month-long survey of recent comix by women cartoonists. Leela Corman's "Subway Series," Debbie Drechsler's "The Summer of Love," Lynda Barry's "One Hundred Demons," and Phoebe Gloeckner's "The Diary of a Teenage Girl" are all semi-autobiographical stories about a young woman's adolescence. We saved the most difficult for last...
...also works well with peaches. Those with a weakness for trivia will find gems throughout the text, which, again, is an addition to the original Pomona. Did you know that currants have a patron saint, John the Baptist? (His feast day, June 24, is around the time of the harvest.) Or that gooseberries have a literary pedigree stretching back to 13th-century France? (The poet Rutebeuf mentions them.) Or that drinking water after eating lots of cherries can cause indigestion? (The liquid swells the pectin in the fruit.) Pomona Britannica doesn't provide answers to all questions. Brookshaw said that...
Zambia’s economy depends on grain exports, most of which go to Europe. Currently, Zambia cultivates non-GM varieties of grain. If GM crops were planted in Zambia, cross-fertilization among crop strains would almost certainly cause Zambian grain harvests to contain at least some GM kernels. The presence of genetically altered grain in the nation’s harvest would prevent any Zambian grain from being shipped to European countries because of import bans on GM food, thus depriving Zambia of its principal export market and seriously damaging the long-term health of the Zambian agricultural economy...