Word: wheats
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...RESIGNED. ANDREW LINDBERG, 52, chief executive of Australian wheat exporter AWB; amid allegations of corruption involving the United Nations oil-for-food program governing trade with Saddam Hussein's Iraq; in Melbourne. U.N. officials claim that from 1996 to 2003, when AWB-formerly the state-controlled Australian Wheat Board-was the largest supplier of humanitarian goods to Iraq, the firm gave up to $222 million in kickbacks to Iraqi ministers in exchange for lucrative contracts. AWB has denied any wrongdoing...
...soon married composer Luna Pearl Woolf ’95, whom he met at Harvard. Together, they created Oxingale Records, the label under which he released his strikingly imaginative recording of Bach’s Six Cello Suites, replete with an exuberant cover photograph of Haimovitz in a wheat field, triumphantly lifting his cello to the sky. In an interview with The Crimson, Haimovitz discusses his grassroots musical approach. The traditional career path of a concert cellist was not fulfilling—instead, he says he seeks to push the boundaries of his musical genre. He describes coming...
...recession. Still, slower growth means there will be pockets of pain. In Iowa, applications to the state's energy-assistance program are up 8%. Public schools, hit with high heating bills, are turning down the thermostat and spending less on field trips. David Callis, who grows corn, soybeans and wheat in Missouri, has seen the price of fertilizer, which is made in part from gas, rise 50%. Consumers, meanwhile, are paying more for items like paint and plastic containers. Sherwin-Williams recently raised the average price of a gallon of paint from $22 to $26. One beneficiary: makers of home...
LOSE WEIGHT We all know that the basic formula is to eat less and exercise more, but being hungry often makes us lose our resolve. Susan Roberts, a nutrition researcher at Tufts University, recommends eating plenty of fiber--found in beans, whole-wheat pasta (there are new varieties that taste better, honest!) and, of course, vegetables. Super-high-fiber cereals also help. The aim is to plug up your stomach so that it releases its contents more slowly, thereby triggering fewer hunger pangs. "Fiber isn't the only way to lose weight," Roberts says. "But for people who struggle with...
This move will also help separate the wheat from the chaff in terms of your “true friends,” whatever that means. Ideally you would pull this move every week and have someone post “Party at Phatty’s!!!!!!” on your wall so you could capitalize on your increased desirability...