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...Mean Girls,” but Halloween is much more than an excuse for girls to get away with dressing super-trashy (hi Regina!). For those unable to recognize the inherent purity of the holiday, FM has compiled a list of five places to get pumpkins, squash, and other traditional Halloween paraphernalia. Mahoney’s Garden Center 449 Western Ave., Brighton Pros: A quick (13-minute) bus ride results in a good selection of traditional, old-school pumpkins. Squash, gourds, bales of straw, and cornstalks provide a well-rounded supply of room decorations. Cons: The hassle/embarrassment/gawking that ensues from...
...candy aisle, which turns first to orange and then to green and red.If we’re to believe the recent buzz about eating locally and seasonally, the progression of seasons should be accompanied by more pronounced changes in our diet—perhaps more butternut squash. As it is, the only edible indication of our tilting away from the sun is the repackaging and reshaping of that most artificial of foods—candy.With our dining hall lifestyle, it only makes sense that we notice the changes in one of the few foods we actively choose for ourselves...
...Farmers are no less pragmatic about their relationship with the cattle buyers and big dairies. In the village of Bingzhouhai, the whims of the market rule the daily rhythms of life. Every morning, farmers who live in courtyard-style homes walk their cows past the patches of lettuce and squash gardens to the small milking station that Yili operates there. Before dairy became a local industry, people used cattle to plow the fields, but there was a better living to be made selling milk than grain. Now, that seems to be changing. "The price of feed is going...
Come August, Russians brace for trouble. This has become a habit since August 1991, when hard-liners attempted an abortive coup to squash Russia's budding democracy. It was in August 2000 that the Kursk submarine sank, and the Ostankino TV tower in Moscow caught fire. It was in August 1999 that apartment houses were bombed in Moscow, the second Chechen war started, and the political fervor it stirred helped usher Vladimir Putin to the presidency...
...invest is a nice problem but a complicated one nonetheless. "It's the classic elephant-in-the-room syndrome," says a Western banker who advises the State Investment Co. "Where does he sit? Anywhere he wants, sure. But he's got to be very careful that he doesn't squash anything when he does." The mere whiff of a rumor that, say, Beijing may shift part of its foreign-exchange holdings from dollars into euros has rattled world currency markets several times in the past year...