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...farmers that grow, pack, and ship half of the nation's fresh fruit, vegetables and nuts. Already, he says, California's Central San Joaquin Valley is missing about 70,000 of the workers it needs. Growers worry that the lack of manpower will next hit the $1 billion winter lettuce crop in the border region between California's Imperial Valley and the Yuma Valley in Arizona...
Kuraj, as Silvia di Natale notes in her remarkable first novel of that name, is a Kyrgyz word for a kind of bush that is blown across the Central Asian steppes by winter winds, shedding seeds, leaves and branches as it goes. The English-language equivalent is tumbleweed, which certainly describes the book's tragically displaced heroine, Kaja, and in a sense the work itself. The talk of the 2000 Frankfurt Book Fair, Kuraj won a yurtful of literary prizes after it first appeared in Italy in the same year. Subsequent translations have charmed critics in France, Germany, Greece...
...Next for me is to write another feature and hopefully direct it in the year. And hopefully, make a second season of “Stella” in the winter...
Your perma-smile and antelope-like pack movements are singling you out as a freshman. Winter padding is a signature of upperclassman life. But by March, switch from snacks to vodka...
...Harvard undergrad. One might say that it is a far cry from my freshman year at UCLA. This is most prevalent when I notice that it is five below outside, and I remember that I had to ask my roommate for help because I did not know what a winter wardrobe consisted of up until about 15 months ago. Undeniably, there were ups and downs of my first year. It was often difficult to know that I had no blocking group because my freshman-year friends lived on the other side of the country. It was difficult to leave...