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...north of San Francisco, must be heaven. The property's cliffside view over the Pacific Ocean is worth millions, but the black Angus cattle that Niman and his wife Nicolette Hahn Niman raise keep their eyes on the ground, chewing contentedly on the pasture. Grass - and a trail of hay that Niman spreads from his truck periodically - is all the animals will eat during the nearly three years they'll spend on the ranch. That all-natural, noncorn diet - along with the intensive, individual care that the Nimans provide their animals - produces beef that many connoisseurs consider to be among...
Diet: Grass Niman's cows eat only grass, along with a smattering of hay. That's the normal diet for cattle. Their rumen, a digestive organ, can break down grasses we'd find inedible...
...find it on bookshelves in New York City, London, Singapore and Sydney. It's a sponsor of literary festivals in Ubud on Bali and Hay-on-Wye in Wales. And it's distributed in 250 Barnes & Noble stores across the U.S. The Asia Literary Review (ALR) - a slick, expensive-looking quarterly magazine of writing from and about Asia - has come far since its early print runs of just a few hundred copies, when it was so little known that it struggled to attract enough content...
...With the Volt, GM is among the first to make some marketing hay from the unreleased EPA revisions, which evidently take into account onboard gasoline generators like the Volt's. Specifically, GM bases its 230-m.p.g. boast on a blend of the Volt's electric-only mode - which has a 40-mile-range limit - and charge-sustaining mode, with its 1.4-L electric generator running. (The generator is a small gas-powered engine that keeps the batteries charged while the car is being driven, hence the "extended range...
...laboratory in which to study the flu virus is the human population itself. "If we get reports of a more severe infection with higher mortality rates, we can map the changes that made the virus more severe and monitor its spread. That could help health officials formulate policies," says Hay of the World Influenza Center, one of four laboratories at the hub of the WHO's global surveillance program. "But we're always playing catch-up with flu. It's impossible to stay ahead of this virus...