Word: revolt
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Ranchers like the Taggarts are part of a growing revolt against industrial agriculture. With more consumers questioning how their food is grown and organic fruits and vegetables exploding into a multibillion-dollar market, grass-finished meat and dairy look like the next food frontier. In the past five years, more than 1,000 U.S. ranchers have switched herds to an all-grass diet. Pure pasture-raised beef still represents less than 1% of the nation's supply, but sales reached some $120 million last year and are expected to increase more than 20% a year over the next decade. Upscale...
...information, but a paucity, that drew Elkins again—and again—back to Kenya. While researching social changes among Kikuyu women from the pre-colonial period to independence for her thesis, the Princeton senior learned of a detention camp for women during the 1950s Mau Mau Revolt, a failed insurgency movement that set the stage for Kenyan independence. But there was no secondary literature. Elkins handed in her thesis and decided that if she ever went back to graduate school, she would investigate these detention camps.Following a brief stint on Wall Street, Elkins arrived in the Yard...
...unify the people of Taiwan." It worked: Taiwan's people are now uniting against him. Amid allegations of insider trading and influence peddling involving senior aides, his son-in-law and the First Lady, Chen's public-approval rating has plunged below 20%. Faced with the threat of revolt from his own supporters, Chen last week beat a strategic retreat, announcing he would hand over day-to-day running of the government to Premier Su Tseng-chang. "He knows he's in political trouble," says Emile Sheng, a political-science professor at Soochow University in Taipei. "He's trying...
...which side they were on - virtually all art-house movies are left-wing - but the aesthetic approach was either too conventional or too oblique to send audiences marching into the streets. Lou Ye's Summer Palace, the only Asian film in the competition, boldly depicted the Tiananmen Square revolt of 1989 but was more concerned with the sexual politics of its heroine (the sulkily charismatic Hao Lei). She and her sex scenes were hot stuff, but the movie's critical response was tepid. Three war movies also failed to astound: Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley...
...Financial markets are anticipating another rise in official interest rates this year. Having campaigned in 2004 on keeping interest rates low, Howard is acutely sensitive to a revolt from voters in urban-fringe electorates. An economic slowdown at home or overseas could also cut the ground from under the government. But the local economy has been so resilient for so long-like two burly and laconic Tasmanian miners-that few are expecting a messy end to the good times...