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Nearly a quarter of American shoppers now buy organic products once a week, up from 17% in 2000. But for food purists, "local" is the new "organic," the new ideal that promises healthier bodies and a healthier planet. Many chefs, food writers and politically minded eaters are outraged that "Big Organic" firms now use the same industrial-size farming and long-distance-shipping methods as conventional agribusiness. "Should I assume that I have a God-given right to access the entire earth's bounty, however far away some of its produce is grown?" asks ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan...
...this radius included a glorious fund of farms, ranches and fisheries, the Salinas Valley food shed that Steinbeck made famous in East of Eden. I also knew that as one of the most successful companies of the era, Google could afford not only to pursue such a whimsical culinary ideal as total locality but also to do so in the form of a fine-dining restaurant. (Café 150 is one of 11 employee eateries on the Google campus, all of which famously charge nothing...
Also perfectly normal. Eccentricity can play as badly on the campaign trail as vice. If Obama has any weird habits along with his unhealthy one, now is the time to chuck them. The ideal candidate in the age of no offense might be the abstemious Mitt Romney--except that his Mormon faith, even though it is 177 years old and made in America, puzzles Evangelicals and liberals...
...joke may be on full-timers and part-timers alike. Although the salaryman's lifetime employment is still considered the Japanese ideal, today nearly one-third of workers in Japan are part-timers like Haruko, up from 20% in 1994. The change is the result of a painful transformation that saw Japanese corporations drastically cut back on hiring while shedding tens of thousands of workers during the economically disastrous years of the 1990s and early 2000s...
Alison H. Rich '09 House: Quincy Concentration: Special (Dramatic Arts and Psychology) Hometown: Port Washington, NY Ideal Date: Pretty much whatever as long as there is an intermission for napping Best way for a guy/girl to get your attention: Naked running...that shit freaks me out. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Hiding from the naked running people First thing you notice about a guy/girl: Whether they are naked or running...neither would be good for a first impression Your best pick-up line: I think we have to make love on the front lawn likec razed weasels...