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...some 60 bloggers had joined the 100-mile diet, inaugurating their own website, EatLocalChallenge.com This year they upped the ante, moving the test to the less bounteous month of May. "With gas prices spiking, people are concerned about our dependence on petroleum," says Locavores co-founder Jessica Prentice. "Why import apples from New Zealand when we can grow them nearby...
...more captivating than German import Nowitzki, 27. In one possession, he's likely to dribble down the court and stroke a long three-pointer (remember, he's 7 feet tall; those guys shouldn't shoot from far away). In the next, he'll fly by a smaller defender for a dunk (7-footers shouldn't be quick). His breakout post-season - Nowitzki is averaging 28.4 points and almost 12 rebounds per game, and scored 50 in a key Game 5 win against the Suns in the Western Conference finals - has earned him comparisons to a legend. "The guy he reminds...
...worry about this whenever I am asked by deans and presidents of leading foreign universities to define (and sometimes to help them to adopt) a “Harvard education.” When colleagues from several Asian countries have asked how best they could import our Core Curriculum, I felt compelled to tell them of all its strengths. But I also share with them our several proposals to replace...
...choice about bilingualism. It is a country created of two nations at its birth, and has ever since been trying to cope with that inherently divisive fact. The U.S., by contrast blessed with a single common language for two centuries, seems blithely and gratuitously to be ready to import bilingualism with all its attendant divisiveness and antagonisms...
...only reason the sport is not more widespread now is the lack of equipment," Campbell says. No dragon boats are currently manufactured in the U.S., so most teams have to import them from Germany, although more affordable models from other European and Asian manufacturers are catching up in quality. In the meantime, a Canadian marketing company, Great White North Communications, is filling the void. The Toronto-based firm owns a fleet of 40 boats and charges some $30,000 to provide consulting, technical support and boat hire for dragon-boat festivals...