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Indeed, doing away with lunch trays is just one piece of a grander scheme to make dining halls and campuses carbon neutral. Schools have begun buying organic and locally grown foods, for example, or sometimes growing food right on campus. At the University of Maryland, there's a tomato and herb garden atop one of the dining facilities; it was planted to generate interest in local and sustainable farming, and is watered in part using runoff from refrigerator condensation...
...past decade, the Winter Olympics have cashed in on the action-sports craze captivating the young demo. With interest sparked by ESPN's surprisingly popular X-Games, snowboarders and freestyle skiers have snatched medals and, more important, ratings points. How mainstream have action sports become? Snowboarder Shaun "The Flying Tomato" White, poster boy of the '06 Torino Games, is now a pitchman for American Express...
Visiting a stall that serves bhelpuri - a mix of puffed rice, dough, tomato and coriander that is the quintessential Mumbai snack - I find that the price has gone up from 37 rupees a plate to 42 (about $1), in line with the current inflation rate of 12%. I ask the manager of the stall if sales have slowed down at the higher price. He thinks this is funny, and he shares my question with his workers; they think it's funny too. One of them explains: "If you were happy to pay 37 rupees for a plate of bhelpuri...
...Visiting a stall that serves bhelpuri - a mix of puffed rice, dough, tomato and coriander that is the quintessential Mumbai snack - I find that the price has gone up from 37 rupees a plate to 42 (about $1), in line with the current inflation rate of 12%. I ask the manager of the stall if sales have slowed down at the higher price. He thinks this is funny, and he shares my question with his workers; they think it's funny too. One of them explains: "If you were happy to pay 37 rupees for a plate of bhelpuri...
...Maryland Stalking Salmonella's Source U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials are now looking at serrano peppers, cilantro and jalapeņos, as well as tomatoes, as possible sources of the salmonella outbreak that has infected more than 1,000 people since April. These items are commonly found in salsa, which many victims said they had consumed before they fell ill. Tomato growers say hasty finger-pointing by the FDA cost them millions in lost revenue...