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...Indeed, the maritime parking lot seems to have been good for business at Con-Lash. "We're getting orders more easily," Tony Ng, its owner, says. He estimates that he's supplying nearly 50% more ships on an average week than he did this time last year. "We've been quite surprised." Ng's firm is one of more than 300 ship chandlers in Singapore, some of them still small mom-and-pop outfits. According to Douglas Inch, who runs the secretariat of the Singapore Ship Suppliers Association, most of them are doing well in spite of the downturn...
...project in southern Uganda, double-decker animal pens open onto corn, cabbage, bananas and crawling green beans. The earth is contoured to reduce runoff and erosion. Spring onions serve as natural pest control. Legumes fix nitrogen to the soil. Cow manure produces biogas for the farm's stove. Farm owner Josephine Kizza says her project has introduced organic techniques to 180,000 Ugandan farmers. "In the Western countries, organic farming is expensive. But here in Africa, it is very cheap...
...taxpayers are livid at Hardin officials. "It's been a complete fiasco since the beginning," says Mike Carpata, a forester with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, as he shopped at Lammers Trading Post in Hardin's downtown. But others remain supportive of the project. The store's fourth-generation owner, George Lammers, notes that after subtropical Gitmo, the dry, wintry high plains "would be torture for some of those boys." He adds, "I think it would be great for all the law-enforcement people to be here. It would help our housing market. Our city fathers wanted the economic benefits...
...Season Aspen. Hotel Jerome in Aspen, Colo., is celebrating 120 years of bedding guests. Built at the height of Colorado's silver rush by Jerome B. Wheeler, the co-owner of New York's Macy's department store, the hotel was meant to bring a touch of European luxury to the mountains. There's no skiing in Aspen this time of year, but there's plenty of hiking, fly fishing, biking and hot-air ballooning to be had. For its anniversary Hotel Jerome is offering a three-night History Buff package, with a guided tour of Independence Pass...
...agreement to lease and purchase another piece of property near its Science Complex construction site. According to University spokeswoman Lauren M. Marshall, Harvard will be master leasing the property at 65-79 Seattle St. in Brighton for 10 years, after which Harvard will purchase the parcel unless the owner elects to sell it to the University sooner. She declined to comment on the costs of the lease agreement and said that she did not have figures on hand for the precise total square footage of the lot, but emphasized that no deeds had been conferred at this time.Supply New England...