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Although there are a few Christmas attractions, such as reindeer and sleigh rides on tree farms, the weeks leading up to Halloween and Thanksgiving are the peak season for agritourism, especially in the Midwest, where the phenomenon is booming. Young's Jersey Dairy in Yellow Springs, Ohio, attracts more than 1.4 million visitors a year to its dairy farm, which also offers baseball batting cages, a miniature-golf course and homemade ice cream. Eckert's Country Farm & Stores, near St. Louis, Mo., brings in $10 million annually, about 80% of the farm's revenues, from its restaurants, bakery and gift...
...accounted for, such is not the case with health care. Governmental entities pay the bills out of current revenue. As is the case with everyone else's, those bills are exploding. So, too, are future obligations, as the baby boomers prepare to leave their government jobs. This year New Jersey's State Health Benefits Program will cost taxpayers $1 billion for active workers and an additional $900 million for retirees, according to Fred Beaver, director of the Division of Pensions and Benefits. By 2010, the state will spend more on health care for retirees ($2.3 billion) than for active workers...
...fitting analogy, because like the fictional New Jersey Mob family, the Assads could be facing the end of their run. A long-awaited United Nations report last week implicated the Syrian regime in the assassination last February of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri--and specifically fingered Maher Assad and Shawkat as playing leading roles in the violent conspiracy. The report, by German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, reconstructs the events that it says led up to the car-bomb murder of Hariri, including the August 2004 meeting in Damascus during which Bashar Assad threatened the billionaire Lebanese politician...
...dictator. Perhaps a consistent foreign policy, sorely missing during the past four years, will now come into existence. While at this time media attention is concentrating on Albright, William Cohen as Secretary of Defense may emerge as the strongest member of the new team. SAMUEL TENNENBAUM West Orange, New Jersey...
...investment in the Packers, though ours is of a more emotional nature. Our son John has been a Packer fan most of his life, which is now seven years long, despite having never set foot in Wisconsin. Let's see, he has a No. 4 Brett Favre Packer jersey, a No. 92 Reggie White Packer jersey, a Packer sweatshirt, a very cool Packer T shirt, two Packer baseball caps, one Packer knit cap, a Packer checker set, a Packer piggy bank, a miniature Packer helmet and several autographed Packer photos, which he wrote away for, all by himself...