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...Annette Smith sees it, Omya Industries is trying to blow up part of her town. To be sure, it's not a very big part--just a few dozen acres on a 400-acre tract in the Vermont mountains where the company wants to dig a marble mine. Still, Smith, head of the group Vermonters for a Clean Environment, wants to stop...
...town is not united against the mine; some allege that the fight is being led not by locals who grew up with the marble industry, but by "flatlanders"--newcomers from the cities--who don't want their sight lines or property values disturbed. "No one wants the Vermont marble industry to go away," says Smith, 45, a full-time activist and former artist. "But Omya is the wrong fit for Danby...
...Rees doesn’t really want to discuss his cleverness. He’d much rather talk about Adopt-a-Minefield, the charity that receives his royalties (and a portion of Soft Skull’s) for the bound version of GYWO. He showed the audience footage of Mine Detection & Dog Center #5 at work sniffing out and deactivating landmines, the fastest-growing industry in Afghanistan today...
...every 15 seconds. Any other night, you could call the cops and have the little ruffians taken away. But one year I did that and now the neighbors don’t speak to me. Anyway, buy your own damn Reese’s Pieces. I want mine for myself...
...appreciate the column on my sermon “Patriotism Is Not Enough” by Jason L. Steorts ’01-’03 (Column, “Preaching Politics,” Oct. 28). It is not often that a sermon of mine or anyone else’s rates a full response, critical or otherwise, in “Cambridge’s Only Breakfast Table Daily.” I am grateful. Clearly we disagree—not simply on political philosophy, but on the nature of a sermon and the responsibility...