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...didn’t matter that we were too far away to hear the harmonies, or that few of the performers on stage belonged to the original, 1961 band. As we watched the Red Line shoot across the Salt-and-Pepper-Shaker Bridge, and other listeners reclined on boats near the shore, I felt like I was part of something: a community...
...quixotic mission - to unseat Arlen Specter, a 30-year incumbent Senator who is probably the most successful politician in Pennsylvania history. And he's got to do it all in nine months with less money than Specter, little name recognition outside his district in the Philadelphia suburbs and the near unanimous disapproval of the state's powerful Democratic establishment...
...raising animals in conditions that replicate the wild, he's not sure he can make the economics work. Natural nesting means that the birds lay only one set of eggs per year, and for a diversified farm where each animal has to earn its keep, that's nowhere near enough eggs. Also, he prefers to be scientific in his experimentation, altering only one variable at a time. "Farms change in years," he says. "Not months." For now, Stone Barns' geese will be hatched in incubators...
Owned and run by L.A. natives Natasha Case and Freya Estreller, Coolhaus debuted at the Coachella music festival near Palm Springs in April, with an initial investment of $15,000. That first weekend, the business broke even. By June, it was operating in the black. "It's very profitable," says Case, who received her master's degree in architecture from UCLA last year. "It's almost better than architecture." (Read TIME'S 1981 cover story on ice cream...
...minibus. Many of the dead were day laborers on a tea break at a construction site as well as residents of both Sunni and Shi'ite neighborhoods. Despite the mayhem, Baghdad's citizens aren't so sure that al-Qaeda has the strength to bring the country to near civil chaos, as it did in 2006-07. Iraqis are beginning to believe that the Islamist radicals of al-Qaeda are too weak to coordinate the massive attacks of the past, and certainly not in Baghdad. But others appear to be picking up the slack. The Sunni Ahdamiya neighborhood used...