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...Connectivity promises to transform a way of life that could be mistaken for timeless. Warana's project is providing farmers with access to essential information. The network keeps detailed records of all transactions with local sugar and milk cooperatives; it lists prices of farm produce in the region's agricultural markets (to help farmers decide what to plant or where to sell their produce); and it offers a daily weather forecast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wiring India's Villages | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...network also helps reduce a major anxiety plaguing local farmers. Once a sugarcane crop is ready to harvest, each day's delay reduces its sugar content and the money the farmer can get from a cooperative for his crop. The Pokhale cooperative owns only one harvester, which is usually monopolized by bigger, more influential farmers. But now the harvesting dates for every village and farm are available on the network, and farmers can complain to the cooperative chief if the harvester fails to arrive at the appointed hour. Ghewari, 63, who grows cane in a five-acre field, was quick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wiring India's Villages | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...team captain had recommended eating sunflower seeds to stay awake, but the process of extracting each seed from the shell proved too complicated and the finished product not worth the effort. Instead, I picked up a king-size bag of Skittles along the way, figuring the sugar would keep me alert...

Author: By Brook C. Wilkinson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Diary: 24 Hours in a Porshe, My Record-Setting Drive | 11/15/2000 | See Source »

...self-described risk taker whose sweet-corn ice cream (inspired by Mexican cuisine) is now a summer favorite, Fleming aims to make dessert fun--an attitude that's readily apparent in her basket of warm cinnamon-sugar doughnuts and the warm chocolate souffle served with a shot-glass-size chocolate malted and a scoop of chocolate-malted ice cream. "Claudia gives a lot of thought to her desserts and combines flavors that make you want to eat them," says pastry chef Nancy Silverton of Los Angeles' Campanile restaurant and La Brea Bakery. "I'd rather eat her desserts than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food / Sweet Taste Of Success: A Desserter From the Dance | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...quack jokes, please)--has been diluted beyond all imagining. First, one part of the active ingredient is combined with a hundred parts of solvent. Next, the mixture is shaken and diluted again at one part per hundred--a process that is repeated a total of 200 times. Finally, sugar granules soaked in the resulting solution are enclosed in six capsules a box, good for two days of treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something to Sneeze At | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

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