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...strum and they threw their bodies into the beat, odds are they were staring up at a man. So what happens to a generation of girls that experiences that same idolatry, that loses itself to the crowd and the guitar—without the brash misogyny of a Robert Plant or a Mick Jagger...
Whitchurch, who inherited his green thumb from his mother and spent last summer working on his grandparents’ 3,000-acre farm, has a simple approach to growing. For each plant he has created a “tailor-made growing environment,” he says. “We pride ourselves on treating each plant as an individual.” Plants that prefer a great deal of sunlight are placed under a sunlamp, and those that need lots of water are specially treated with frequent waterings. Whitchurch takes no chances with watering his plants?...
...particularly important to pay close attention to the cilantro, according to self-declared salsa aficionado Whitchurch. “Because cilantro is an annual, you’ve got to plant a new crop each month or so to keep it going,” he says. One must also be constantly sensitive to how the plant is growing. “The cilantro got kind of leggy when it first sprouted because it wasn’t getting enough light. Now it’s under a sunlamp, and its leaves are starting to fill...
...towns. Since they were built to extend the company's reach and wealth to the south, Fiat factories and nearby parts providers offer the only real job opportunities in a region where unemployment is already above 20%. Giuseppe Lecce, who joined the car company four years after the Cassino plant opened in 1972, was part of a four-hour nationwide strike Friday of all Fiat plants. As a steady drizzle fell, Lecce, 52, gave a quick lesson in local economic history in front of the gate to the plant that produces the company's most popular new model - the Stilo...
...because my work was not normative." Normative? "Well, ordinary, everyday stuff." Bilbao has helped. "Clients see it's possible to do something extraordinary that is not repetition." Hadid's extraordinary designs are now on order in Barcelona (the Arts Plaza in the city center); Leipzig (a car plant); another German city, Wolfsburg (a science center); Rome (a museum of modern art); Salerno, Italy (a ferry terminal); Cincinnati, Ohio (an arts center); Innsbruck, Austria (a café-topped ski jump, which opened last month); Abu Dhabi (a sinuous bridge); and, biggest of all, Singapore, where her team drew up the master...