Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...VERMONT...
...first, investigators from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency in St. Paul assumed that the problem was restricted to their state, and the agricultural part at that. They were wrong. Deformed frogs have since turned up in Wisconsin, South Dakota, Vermont and up into Canada...
Cohen and Greenfield, of course, are the hippie founders of Ben & Jerry's Homemade, the Waterbury, Vermont-based superpremium ice-cream maker that vaulted to prominence with its quirky management style and equally quirky flavors, including Chubby Hubby and Chunky Monkey. Ben and Jerry have made a very public effort to put the environment, politics and people before profits--an unpardonable sin in the canon of Wall Street and a style that worked so long as Baby Boomers were ignoring their fat intake and scarfing Cherry Garcia by the pint...
...France's controversial nuclear-testing policies. Holland is something of a social activist in his own right. In Detroit in the 1980s, he created programs to help disadvantaged students graduate high school. Still, clear and early enough were Holland's and Cohen's differences that Holland never moved to Vermont from his home in New York City. Why get comfortable? Holland didn't return calls seeking comment...
Thus we look away from campus, toward the fall colors of Vermont, the bright lights of New York, the twin town of Providence, R.I. We gaze as Gatsby did to the green light on the end of the dock, but for us, like him, it is inaccessible. It represents a certain freedom that we, as Harvard students, find it difficult to grant ourselves. To do so would mean going against the work ethic that Harvard's Puritan founders successfully instilled in cobblestones of the pavement and the bricks of the buildings--and the more modern ethic of mandatory 60-hour...