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Protected banana production, that is. Most of the bananas were grown on small family farms and tilled by hand on hilly terrain and poor soil, with little or no mechanization or irrigation. Yields were far below those in places like Honduras, Guatemala and Ecuador. In fact, the cost of growing bananas in the Caribbean was twice that for bananas produced on Latin American plantations. Without their favorable entree to Europe, the banana industries of these small islands might have disappeared...
...turn a profit. The little girl who wanted to be a farmer has finally grown up, and it's only fitting that the grapes that made her dream come true are late-ripening Cabernet, which, she points out, improve with time. The difficult mountainside growing conditions and rocky soil only enhance their quality. "They say grapes that struggle are like the human character," says Chu. "They're better." Her advice to other folks: "Find out all you can, then just do it. Start in a small way, and keep working...
...world at the click of a Send button, this ubiquity says more about the diffuse nature of his operations. U.S. investigators were reported Thursday to have uncovered links between Bin Laden and the bomb plot foiled last December by the arrest of a number of Algerian militants on U.S. soil. The suspected head of the Canada-based Algerian group was arrested recently in Senegal, at Washington's request, pending formal charges. Investigators say Mohambedou Ould Slahi also happens to be the brother-in-law of one of Bin Laden's key lieutenants. And the roommate of one of the Algerians...
...family feud over Cuban boat boy Elian Gonzalez is now taking place on American soil. Both of the six-year-old's grandmothers flew in to New York Friday and came out swinging against their relatives in Miami who're fighting to keep their grandson in the U.S. "I have heard people say that it was the will of the mother that Elian be in the U.S., but I know her better than anyone," said Raquel Rodriguez, mother of Elian's late mother. "If she made that trip it was because she had a person living with...
...appears to be enforcing immigration accords more stringently. Those require that the U.S. send back any Cuban rafter intercepted at sea. But Washington has indulged--and Havana has railed at--a loophole known as the "wet feet, dry feet" rule, which allows any Cuban who makes it onto U.S. soil to claim asylum. That has only encouraged illegal balseros--rafters like Elian and his mother--to attempt the voyage across the straits. U.S. immigration officials in Miami tell TIME that "wet feet, dry feet" may come under serious review...