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...California's $2.2 billion almond industry ticking and is a huge moneymaker for more than half the country's commercial beekeepers. But this year, some worry that relationship is starting to sour. Driven by surging global demand, California's almond growers have doubled acreage since 1981, forcing them to lean heavily on imported bees from as far away as Vermont. Drive along the unlined roads around Hughson, and it's easy to find 10 different almond farmers renting hives from 10 different states. Orin Johnson, whose family has been keeping bees around Hughson since the 1950s, remembers when beekeepers earned...
...crisis, and we're determined to help you understand the economic crisis we're all living through. It affects us too, but our job is to explain how it's affecting you. We have been doing this for the past 10 months, beginning with our cover stories "Surviving the Lean Economy" and "Job #1: The Economy" during the presidential campaign. And we've been doing it ever since, not with opinion and conjecture but with reporting on the ground and a concern for how all this is affecting real people's lives. We did that last week with...
...However, Italians don’t just tear things down without a plan. We build them up, so they can lean over due to soil erosion. We have substantive ideas, and we were humble enough to scrap those that only honored our culture: Vespas, the Pope, “The Lizzie McGuire Movie,” Rocky Marciano/Rocky of “Rocky” fame, and Chef Boyardee. Even after discarding those, we have some great ideas that will represent Harvard much better than the Orange reactionary we currently have...
During Russia's fat years, waistlines expanded almost as quickly as oil and gas exports. But now that lean times have returned, Russia's Ministry of Health is encouraging a revival of a diet full of cabbage, sour milk and other traditional foods to fatten Russians' wallets and slim their bellies. The advice, contained in a new Ministry report, is aimed at helping a population hit by rising unemployment, a falling ruble and ever-increasing food prices...
Wurzelbacher, Joe • inability of to ply trade of - "I can no longer actually work as a plumber ... I show up to your house. Say you lean way left ... You don't like my politics. You sit there and say, 'Joe the Plumber overcharged me, Joe the Plumber broke this.' That makes national news ... I've spoken to some of my plumbing buddies in town and no one really wants to touch me right now" - is deemed by to be the fault of Ohio officials because ... because ... wait, there is no because