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...hard to start big, which is why agriculture has the kind of demographics that cancels sitcoms: only 6% of farmers are younger than 35, while 26% are over 65. "It's damn near impossible to get started today," Craig Ebberson says during a tour of the endless rows of corn and soybeans he farms with his sons near Randolph, Neb. "Farms are getting bigger and more efficient, and that's not going to stop." The Environmental Working Group's farm-subsidy database shows that Ebbersons in the area collected $3 million in crop aid over the past decade. Craig used...
Rolling up your sleeves and doing good for others have become almost trendy, as indicated by the near instant best-seller status of Bill Clinton's new book, Giving, which celebrates numerous individuals who have traded in their corporate careers for the satisfying experience of volunteer work. By many accounts, the number of midlife meaning seekers is exploding, as more and more boomers move out of the workforce. "Giving back broadens the dimensions of what we call retirement," says Cicily Maton, a financial planner in Chicago. She says nearly all her post-50 clients give either money or time...
...more energy-efficient. Wal-Mart has pledged to reduce energy usage at its stores 30% by 2012. It has embraced compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs) and less packaging. For instance, by next May, to save energy and space, the company will stock only concentrated detergents. In a high-efficiency prototype near Kansas City, Mo., the company is testing LED-illuminated refrigerator cases that don't light up until you approach them, so the lights stay off 40% of the time. Elsewhere it is testing solar panels and windmills...
Even if the Ariases win, they risk becoming another symbol of Latin America's gaping chasm between a hyperwealthy élite and the abject poor. Panama and its reformist President, Martín Torrijos, may have a good business plan for the future, but the nation's near 40% poverty rate is a legacy of decades of banana-republic rule and dismal social spending. Hilda declined to speak to TIME on the record because the case is still pending, but her granddaughter Madelaine Urrutia, who sits on the board of a children's charity, insists, "We are a family with...
...United States. “His personal anecdotes really gave a face to what we read in the papers about the North Korean regime,†said Ian M. Miller, a student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences focusing on East Asian regional studies. Near tears by the end of his speech, Kim received a standing ovation from the still-packed auditorium...