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...works like this: grass is a perennial. Rotate cattle and other ruminants across pastures full of it, and the animals' grazing will cut the blades - which spurs new growth - while their trampling helps work manure and other decaying organic matter into the soil, turning it into rich humus. The plant's roots also help maintain soil health by retaining water and microbes. And healthy soil keeps carbon dioxide underground and out of the atmosphere...
...From Vermont, where veal and dairy farmer Abe Collins is developing software designed to help farmers foster carbon-rich topsoil quickly, to Denmark, where Thomas Harttung's Aarstiderne farm grazes 150 head of cattle, a vanguard of small farmers are trying to get the word out about how much more eco-friendly they are than factory farming. "If you suspend a cow in the air with buckets of grain, then it's a bad guy," Harttung explains. "But if you put it where it belongs - on grass - that cow becomes not just carbon-neutral but carbon-negative." Collins goes even...
...with a sexual fetish involving exotic snakes, which I choose to accept as an hommage à moi.) It's as if Ferris is testing his range to make sure the bass end is there as well as the comic treble. It's present and accounted for and suitably rich and profound. The next step will be to put it all together...
...This raised a question in the minds of the court's majority. If freedom of speech protects the right of rich individuals to use television to distribute their political views during election season, does the same right extend to rich groups - like businesses, labor unions, the NRA, the ACLU or Citizens United? (See the top 10 moments of the 2008 election...
...there's one thing Belgium is known for above all else - more than Tintin, chocolate and female tennis stars - it's beer. The Belgians have a rich beer-making tradition dating back to the Middle Ages, with more than 125 breweries today; beer, it is said, is the very lifeblood of the country. But trouble is, ahem, brewing. Supplies of Belgium's top brands - Stella Artois, Hoegaarden and Leffe - are rapidly running low in bars and supermarkets as unions have set up blockades outside the country's largest breweries to protest proposed job cuts...