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...dairy products are available in grocery stores, while Illinois consumers can buy them directly from farms if they bring their own containers. An increasingly popular arrangement designed to circumvent state restrictions is a so-called herd-sharing program, like Hebron's, which requires members to, in effect, lease a portion of a cow - for $20 a year, in his case - and sign an agreement opposing "all governmental standards for food, preparation, storage and safety." The $6.25-per-gal. charge is technically not a sale but compensation to cover board and transport costs...
...students focusing on Allston said that understanding Harvard’s presence in the area constituted a large portion of their research. They noted that the University’s expansion has already had practical effects there and said their classification of Allston as “transitional emerging” could be attributed to Harvard’s influence...
...year, “personal expenses” are meant to cover everything not provided by Harvard. This includes items from toothpaste and soap to clothing and textbooks. To determine the size of the stipend, Financial Aid Office uses cost estimates derived from sample budgets and student surveys.The textbook portion of that estimate is in the realm of $1, 250 per year (used books are about $300 less), leaving a student on financial aid the modest sum of around $50 per week for all of their other personal expenses. But, of course, there lies the nearly irresistible temptation within this...
...with his eyes, it was pleasant but unremarkable. When he looked through the viewfinder, the same curve was bright and erotic, flat in a way, but alluring.” Just as Elena’s ass is transformed into the alluring in a new medium, the Iraq-oriented portion of Smiley’s narrative might have seemed eloquent in a newspaper editorial. But by stuffing unremarkable political arguments between her erotic vignettes, Smiley reduces her “My Dinner with André” to a novelistic “Fahrenheit 9/11...
...think anyone should be surprised to see a large portion of France's banlieue vote going to Le Pen," says a woman giving her name only as Habiba. Many of the younger, newly registered voters in the housing projects around her Toulouse home have told her they'll do just that. Though most people in France view Le Pen as the very embodiment of overt racism, both Habiba and Smahi say minority voters will overlook his reputation in order to keep out the politician most hated by banlieue youths: Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, whose heavy-handed approach and provocative language...