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...There will be some senators who are looking forward to their own elections, and think that they have to stampede with the rest of the panicking herd,” Frankel said. “It’s scapegoating...
...Coleman and Damrosch believe that adding livestock to their farm will help the planet? Cattleman Ridge Shinn has the answer. On a wintry Saturday at his farm in Hardwick, Mass., he is out in his pastures encouraging a herd of plump Devon cows to move to a grassy new paddock. Over the course of a year, his 100 cattle will rotate across 175 acres four or five times. "Conventional cattle raising is like mining," he says. "It's unsustainable, because you're just taking without putting anything back. But when you rotate cattle on grass, you change the equation...
...Bollywood capital of Mumbai were limited by relatively few outlets; in 2005, there were only 13,000 single-screen cinemas in a country with 1.2 billion people. But India's real estate boom and 9% economic growth rate (it has now backed down to 7%) helped usher in a herd of multiplexes - and new profits for U.S. players. American studios now estimate that 65% of their earnings come from screenings at multiplexes. Hollywood films, which only cashed in on 1% of the total Indian market 10 years ago, now skim 7% of that growing market...
Casey L. Cazer ’12 says she may be the only pre-vet at Harvard interested in large animal medicine. This summer, she worked on a dairy farm, monitoring the health of a herd of 3,000 cows...
...That is no easy feat. Senate majority leader is a strange job, unlike that of any other figure in Washington. Lacking the powerful rules of the House speaker or the bully pulpit of the presidency, the majority leader's chief job is to herd cats, in this case Senators, each of whom is a powerful figure in his or her own right. When it comes to health care, nearly every Senator in Reid's own party has a provision or a version he or she would like included; Reid's goal is to keep enough of those cats happy...