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...rapt crowds at the recent Venice and Toronto film festivals but has no American distributor, is a wildly imaginative pastiche in which all the Japanese actors read their lines in phonetic English. It proves that the western can be a robust form of entertainment, just not in the land of its birth...
...beauty of the land. It's wonderful to wake up under clear blue skies that stretch from horizon to horizon. There is an openness in small towns. You look other people...
...ground into feed, up from 7.7% in 1948, according to recent research from the UBC Fisheries Centre. One third of that feed goes to China, where 70% of the world's fish farming takes place; China now devotes nearly 1 million hectares (close to 4,000 sq. mi.) of land to shrimp farms. And about 45% of the global production of fishmeal and fish oil goes to the world's livestock industry, mostly pigs and poultry, up from 10% in 1988. If current trends continue, demand for fish oil will outstrip supply within a decade and the same could happen...
...town in 1949, and married a Locke native. She helped raise the couple's two children, worked as a midwife, and cared for elderly bachelors living out their final years in boarding houses. Although the California Supreme Court in 1952 struck down a law forbidding Asian immigrants from owning land, Locke had been built on private land, which was not for sale. As the town's elderly residents passed on, their children began to move to the cities and suburbs...
...Starting in 2001, in response to King's tireless lobbying, the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency spent four years and $1 million (from a Federal grant) on repairing the dilapidated sewers. The agency also mapped, surveyed, and purchased the 10-acre downtown area in order to subdivide the land and sell each lot to 51 individual owners. "I fought for 55 years to get land," says King, standing in front of her simple, well-manicured home...