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...again. The plan is to get all the hazardous materials out of the swamp by Christmas, take out all the white appliances like refrigerators, and then remove the electronics like televisions and computers. Afterwards the refuge officials will burn off the wood and dead grasses. "Fire is our plow," LaBauve says. "I figure if they can rebuild Iraq, they can damn sure rebuild this refuge... There's no permanent scar here. There's nothing...
...Today the farm-to-table ideal has spread across the nation. In its July issue, Gourmet magazine ran a feature on what it cleverly called ?plow-to-plate? restaurants from Milwaukee to Maine. These aren?t just places that source their ingredients from local farmers, as Waters and many others have urged for years. Rather, these restaurateurs actually operate farms themselves. For instance, Dan Kary, who owns Cinque Terre in Portland, Maine, farms two and a half acres that provide about 40% of the restaurant?s vegetables. On the day I spoke to him a few weeks...
...successful politician, the president of the Montana state senate. But in April, in the midst of a hot primary race, Tester took five days off from the campaign to seed his 1,800-acre farm in the eastern Montana flatlands. "Look, I do the things real people do. I plow, I seed, I harvest. I do some of my best thinking on my tractor," Tester told me as he campaigned in Whitefish, Mont., last week...
Harvard Summer School also expanded its study-abroad programs, facilitating students paths’ to a summer outside the U.S. Just five years ago, Harvard offered only two such programs, forcing students to hunt through third-party offerings and plow through piles of paperwork and petitions. But despite the recent expansion in programs, Harvard has allocated limited financial aid for the students enrolled in them. And last April, the shortage of international study grants for Harvard’s students came to light as an increase in applications (eased by a new common grant application) meant that many students...
...Twenty-five years into their wildly successful careers, Jean and Reiss continue to plow ahead with new projects...