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Fussell's more focused book limits itself to American beef, but somehow feels more expansive and ambitious. In puncturing mythology of the West, she pits The Cowboy against The Machine: On one side are the old-timers, so in love with nostalgic ideals of land and horizon and freedom that they fail to realize that the cattle industry is a rich man's game, made for those on the other side with the money, fuel and machinery that go into making cattle so profitable. Like Beef, and many books before it, Raising Steaks reminds us that as tasty as burgers...
...Factors such as urban design, land usage, and social equity all occur in tandem and it is difficult to disentangle them,” he said. “Could I predict, right now, whether Harvard’s current plan will be social failure or an absolute success? Absolutely...
...move, which would use land the university purchased from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, would mark a historic departure for BC, which has always confined itself to the west of Commonwealth...
Whether it's the dip in atmospheric pressure (said to increase orgasmic intensity), the cute flight crew uniforms or the excitement of jetting off to a strange land, air travel has been associated with romance ever since man learned...
Thaksin, who was ousted from power by the military in a 2006 bloodless coup, got the news in London, where he fled in August with his family after his wife, Pojaman, was found guilty of tax evasion by Thailand's Criminal Court. (As the buyer of the land, Pojaman was also charged in the Oct. 21 case, but she was found not guilty by the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Office because she was not a state official, and not liable to conflict of interest charges.) There was no immediate reaction from Thaksin or his lawyers...