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...recent grape debate is only an extreme example of this persistent pattern. As the Wall Street Journal noted in its December 10 article on the Harvard grape controversy, "The recent ferment at Harvard is odd, if only because the grape boycott had pretty much died on the vine elsewhere." In fact, the grape boycotts (1967-70, 1973-78) succeeded, leading one to wonder why were we still at it only a week...

Author: By Eric M. Nelson, | Title: Malevolent Benevolence | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

Felipe did not know the names for the chemicals her company uses, but she said that when the they were applied on the vine, workers "were wearing a mask and breathers and everything...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss and Nicholas A. Nash, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Grape Workers Recount Difficult Conditions | 12/2/1997 | See Source »

...John Kovacevich, the year begins in December, when his workers remove 90 to 95 percent of the previous year's growth, leaving just enough of the vine to produce new shoots in the spring...

Author: By Caitlin E. Anderson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Non-Unionized Farms Not Exploitative, Says Grape Grower | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

Salome is explaining a traditional cure for pterygium, an eye affliction common to the tropics in which vision gradually becomes obscured as a layer of tissue encroaches over the cornea. The traditional cure used by healers is leaves of Centella asiatica, a ground-hugging vine, which Salome chews into a poultice, smears on a cloth and then places as a compress on the afflicted eye for three consecutive nights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PLANT HUNTER | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

...times faster than a 28.8 modem. But considering the cost of the traffic-sorting gigapops, only the giant telcos such as MCI will be able to afford them when they arrive, in approximately 2002. Small-time service providers will most likely be left to wither on the slower-connection vine: One analyst predicts the gigapop could kill most small ISPs within five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The $50M Internet Connection | 8/28/1997 | See Source »

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