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...effects of chemicals while also reducing the use of irrigation, saving two million gallons of water a year. In addition, the new growing methods have turned around the health of plants afflicted with serious diseases, such as the orchards at Elmwood, which were suffering from leaf spot and apple scab...
...years ago about your husband's infidelity. How come you didn't use your book as a vehicle for writing more about that? Well, I explain that in the book. Out of love and affection for my husband, at this point. Any time you keep picking at a scab, it cannot heal. I've said everything I wanted to say, and so has my husband. People say, "Well, do you have a statement?" I say no. We're concentrating on being a statement. We put our family first, and I think you're never ever sorry when you do that...
...Except that this one is sharper, crueler, way funnier - part parody, part exposé, especially in an eight-minute take of the star in closeup, where Van Damme makes a confession of his personal and career sins, and the tough guy ends up crying. It is the finest, most scab-pulling performance I saw in Toronto, and it should earn JCVD a commercial showcase in the States...
...bonding--began in the harsh world of the penal settlement. It continued in the hardly less tough environment of labor that was the lot of most men in the bush: shearers, station hands, shepherds. To have a mate was to survive; to betray that mate was to be a scab, less than a man; such was the hard calculus of colonial life, and its traces are very much alive in Australia today...
...Jewish tirade during a drunk-driving arrest; actor Isaiah Washington reportedly called a fellow Grey's Anatomy cast member a "faggot" during an argument on set. News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, meanwhile, apologized last week not for bigotry per se but for cynically ripping off the race-and-gender scab of the O.J. Simpson trial by offering Simpson a book deal and TV show to describe how he "hypothetically" would have butchered his wife and her friend...