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Walking back to my dorm with my coffee, I noticed a green pickup truck with an odd-looking trailer parked near the Yard. Closer inspection revealed that it was in fact a rolling memorial to Alex Arredondo, a Marine from Boston who died at age 20 in Najaf, Iraq in August...
...life, a letter to his parents from a naval transport en route to Iraq, and, most chillingly, a line in Arredondo’s life story that said he had enlisted at age 17. As I examined the coffin, the military boots, and the dog tags arrayed on the truck, the soldier’s father, Carlos Arredondo, walked...
Farmers' markets often feature organic produce from nearby farms, but not everyone lives near a farmers' market--and most products at the markets aren't organic. "I've been to farmers' markets, and there's people hauling stuff from the truck that they got at a wholesaler," says Joseph Mendelson III, legal director of the Center for Food Safety, a liberal Washington group that supports strong organic standards. Mendelson prefers the "gold standard" of locally grown organics, but he is rather frightening on the subject of nonorganic food, whatever its origin. When I asked him whether I should favor local...
...beef from Bassian Farms in San Jose, Calif., but the restaurant can't obtain everything it needs from the valley. Take salt. "There are salt flats a quarter-mile that way," said Keller, pointing to the horizon, "but they're for industrial purposes." So he buys salt "off the truck," from a food-service deliverer...
...Baghdad and used it to take a smuggler's ride through Syria to Turkey. In Turkey a smuggler traded Daniel's Iraqi passport for a false European passport for $8,000--paid by his parents in Baghdad. Then he hid in the back of a cargo truck with three other Iraqi men for the duration of the 3,000-mile journey into Sweden...