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Other candidates--Joe Lieberman, Bob Graham--are in the parade, but you would hardly know it. This event is mano a mano: Kerry vs. Dr. Howard Dean, the former Governor of Vermont. Dean has about the same number of supporters as Kerry--but they're younger, more enthusiastic and much more creative. Some are wearing white doctors' coats, brandishing stethoscopes and passing out tongue depressors with the words "Rx for America: Howard Dean." The Governor, however, seems unprepared for parading. He's wearing navy pinstripe suit pants, a blue business shirt and his perennial black penny loafers. When we shake...
Howard Dean is hardly what you would call a high-tech guru. The former Vermont Governor, whose trademark look is a blue shirt with rolled-up sleeves, is a mostly gadget-free zone. He does not carry a BlackBerry email pager or tablet PC (he leaves those to his aides). And don't expect to find Dean, 54, surfing the Web for hours at home. "I kind of missed the Internet boom," concedes the physician...
...million Amount of money raised in the second quarter by former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, more than any other Democratic presidential candidate...
...Vermont had 2,000 dairy farms in 1990; today there are 1,400. Over the same period, the number of organic farms jumped from three to 60. Fifteen more are expected to be certified by the end of this year, and a similar number in each of the next two years. Nationally, the number of organic dairy cows has jumped from about 13,000 in 1997 to nearly 49,000 in 2001 (the latest year for which figures are available...
Those who take the leap usually say they're glad they did, according to Jack Lazor, an organic farmer in Vermont since 1976, who has helped dozens of others get their start. "They try it for the money, and then six months later, they say they'd never do it any other...