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...subsidizes farmers as they convert to organic production and offers price guarantees on the milk it buys. "Conventional-milk pricing has fallen to levels not seen since the 1970s," says Hirshberg. "It's a disastrous situation for farmers with a cost structure based on 2006 energy costs." The only silver lining, he says, is that it has helped some dairy farmers recognize that organic is the way to go. But many are daunted by the time it takes to switch to organic production: three years for a farm and one year...
...Message: The silver-haired CNN anchor told Yale students to "follow your bliss," but his droll Class Day address (a day before the official commencement, hence the hat) also poked fun at his mother Gloria Vanderbilt, fellow Yalie President Bush and the zeal with which the Ivy hits up ex-students for money...
...jeans, worn pale where she sits, and a ribbed magenta shorty top both lower and higher than it should be. Blue plastic barrettes pull her glistening hair back as straight as it will go; the plump edge of her right ear holds along its crimp a row of little silver rings. She sings in assembly programs, songs of Jesus or sexual longing, both topics abhorrent to Ahmad. Yet he is pleased that she notices him, coming up to him now and then like a tongue testing a sensitive tooth...
...that far out and it doesn’t matter what other crews are doing,” said varsity four-seat Wes Kauble. “I hope that in two weeks we can make it a battle for first instead of a fight for a silver medal.”For both of Harvard’s lightweight varsity eights, that battle turned out to be a futile one. The Harvard varsity fought with Yale and Navy for second place throughout the first 1000 meters. The Bulldogs built a five-seat lead over the Crimson...
...foreign box office. Offside was granted a screening at this year's Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran, which is organized by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. Then, in advance of February's Berlin International Film Festival, at which Panahi's film picked up the Silver Bear, a group of participating Iranian directors was told by Ministry officials to speak freely to the foreign press. And last month, after women protested outside Tehran's stadium, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lifted the ban on women attending games. Some of the protesters were carrying signs saying we don't want...