Organic Farming Becoming a Big Business
Vindicator - SAN JUAN BAUTISTA, Calif. (AP) Earthbound Farm’s fields of organic baby spinach and romaine lettuce are a living symbol of the organic food movement’s explosive growth in recent years. What started two decades ago as a three-acre roadside farm in
More than a fluke
Town Online - T ype the terms “Cape Ann” and “whale” into any search machine and you ll get a string of web pages about whale watches. That s the modern take on a tradition that goes back to the early days of Gloucester: Turning to the whales when times get
Cancer survivor finds ‘happiness in a storm’
News-Times - DANBURY In 1990, Dr. Wendy Harpham’s life was set, just as she’d planned. She was an internist who intended to practice medicine for the rest of her life. “White coat, stethoscope, everything,” Harpham said. Then fate chose another path for her
She s a time machine
Herald-Star - MAKING EVERY MOMENT COUNT Robin Webster of Chester has formed a business that has a market in everyone who ever wanted to save time by having someone else perform some of the more mundane tasks of life. Make Every Minute Count! is a business that
Altman still a companion-magnet
Longview News-Journal - WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Nothing fazes Robert Altman. This is, after all, the man who accepted an honorary lifetime Oscar in March and left the broadcast’s international audience stunned by announcing that he had a heart transplant 11 years earlier
Two corporals, one fateful moment, a life saved
Daily News - Hello friends and neighbors. It is good to see you here. Marine Cpls. David Salmonsen and David Fontenot of HMT-302, MAG-29, 2ndMAW, at New River Air Station are like Fric and Frac when you see one, you usually see the other. Always together, the
Free Radical
Wired - Last night, Harold Varmus appeared to me in a dream. Dressed in cycling garb, the Nobel laureate and former director of the National Institutes of Health was on a mission to rid the world of corks. This is not as foolish a quest as it might sound. In
Share a Recipe
WTVM - Because you will probably be able to order yourself, this meal may not be as difficult as other Meeting & Eating situations. Follow the same rules below for lunch and dinner, except skip wine all together at lunch, no one will think it is
Mixed Signals
NPR News - Today is Friday, which always means Mixed Signals will have a movie review coming up from NPR’s Bob Mondello. And so this is as good as any a time to start a conversation about movies and politics — two things close to my heart. Often political
