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...Food systems in rural Africa are also painfully slow, especially for the women who prepare the meals. In order to serve a meal of nsima (maize), African women must first spend a season planting, weeding, harvesting, and storing their corn, then they must strip it, then winnow it, then soak it, then lay it out to dry, then carry it to a grinder or pound it by hand, then dry it again, and then finally—after walking to gather fuel wood and water—build a fire and cook...

Author: By Robert A. Paarlberg | Title: Harvard and Sustainable Food | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

When Walsh helped homeowners purge their belongings on Clean Sweep, the weekend-long project would end with a huge garage sale. Off camera, good riddance is usually a good bit slower. Simmons has given herself a six-month deadline to winnow her stuff to 100 things--or at least 100 categories of things. (Hey, I'm not knocking her. I've got more than 100 things in my purse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Live With Just 100 Things | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...finally imploded in January after a failed confidence vote. Veltroni, leader of the newly formed Democratic party, made a point of not aligning with more extreme parties on the left. He is expected to head the opposition, and will try to consolidate power across the center-left spectrum and winnow away more support from the array of small, typically destabilizing political parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlusconi Rides Again | 4/14/2008 | See Source »

...From here on out, Rule 13-B is what distinguishes the Democratic race from its Republican counterpart. The G.O.P. primaries are by and large winner-take-all affairs, expressly designed to winnow the field and produce a healthy front-runner and eliminate chaos. But in the Democratic contest, winnowing isn't part of the design; something closer to chaos is. Racking up delegates creates powerful leverage even for a second-place finisher. It gives an also-ran powerful cards to play at the convention for speaking rights, for rules changes - even a place on the ticket. Jackson, working without Rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heading for a Delegate Donnybrook? | 1/28/2008 | See Source »

...then, at long last, comes the moment in the G.O.P. race - Super Tuesday, or Tsunami Tuesday, as it has been christened this year - that is supposed to winnow the field and bring some clarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Split Decision on Super Tuesday? | 1/21/2008 | See Source »

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