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Edible Institute to take place March 16-17 in Santa Barbara
Edible Communities Publications is rounding up a dynamic group of thinkers and tinkerers from the food industry for Edible Institute, a weekend of talks and workshops centered around the local food movement, scheduled to take place March 16 and 17 at...
Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Consumer Goods Industries, Food Industry, Health and Safety at School
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'A Place at the Table' takes on hunger in the U.S.
When people think of hunger, they might picture a starving Third World child. The makers of the new documentary "A Place at the Table" suggest the face of undernourishment can be found much closer to home: Tens of millions of U.S. citizens go to bed...
Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Industry, Film Festivals, Sundance Film Festival, Food, Inc. (movie)
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Baseball books cover the bases
George Plimpton knew the score. A generation or so ago, the late Paris Review editor developed what he called the "Small Ball Theory" of sports writing, which posits "a correlation between the standard of writing about a particular sport and the ball it...
Tags: University of Oxford, Walter Johnson, Bud Selig, Major League Baseball, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
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Doreen B. Boxer, Esq.
Doreen B. Boxer is a Certified Specialist in Criminal Law, California State Bar Board of Specialization. For more than two decades she has fought for her clients–winning acquittals, dismissals and reversals in trial and appellate courts. While the...
Tags: Harvard University, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Education
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Israel undermining own security with settlements, allies warn
As Israel pursues an expanded settlement agenda in Palestinian territory, even its friends are beginning to sound like its adversaries. The European Union issued a damning report this week, calling the Israeli government’s construct-and-control...
Tags: National Government, Israel, Politics, West Bank, Judaism
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PASSINGS: Magic Slim, Cleotha Staples, Lou Myers, Donald Rutledge
Magic Slim Singer of Chicago blues Magic Slim, 75, whose ragged voice and punchy guitar riffs made him a symbol of Chicago blues, died Thursday in Philadelphia after surgery for a bleeding ulcer, according to his family. A younger contemporary of...
Tags: Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia), Concerts, Celebrities, Justice and Rights, Chester Arthur "Howlin' Wolf" Burnett
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Senate confirms Jacob Lew as Treasury secretary
WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Jacob J. Lew as Treasury secretary, allowing the longtime budget expert to take office as President Obama deals with looming automatic federal spending cuts. Lew, 57, was approved by a 71-26 vote. He...
Tags: Timothy Geithner, Politics, Chuck Grassley, Republican Party, U.S. Senate
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Calcium, vitamin D pills don't prevent fractures, panel says
More than half of American women over the age of 60 take vitamin D and calcium supplements, but the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said this week that they’re probably wasting their money. In a new recommendations from the federal government&...
Tags: Mineral Supplements, Vitamin D, Dietary Supplements, Post Menopause, Calcium
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Marcy and Zina — with luck, you'll know their names soon
NEW YORK — In the annals of showbiz, the chance encounter between lyricist Marcy Heisler and composer Zina Goldrich 21 years ago may not rank with Rodgers and Hammerstein's first meeting or Lerner linking up with Loewe. But it could prove to be a...
Tags: Stephen Schwartz, Broadway Theater, Loewe, Poetry, Entertainment
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Senate committee OKs Jacob Lew nomination for Treasury secretary
WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee voted Tuesday to confirm Jacob J. Lew as Treasury Secretary despite Republican concerns about his support for higher taxes to reduce the nation's debt as well as his tenure as a Citigroup Inc. executive before joining...
Tags: Chuck Grassley, Politics, Republican Party, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance
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Senate panel set to vote Tuesday on Treasury nominee Jacob Lew
WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee is expected to vote to confirm Jacob J. Lew's nomination to be Treasury secretary on Tuesday, setting the stage for his confirmation by the full Senate in the coming days. Lew, the former White House chief of staff,...
Tags: Timothy Geithner, Chuck Grassley, Politics, Republican Party, Finance
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Jerry Brown skips White House gathering for New York meetings
SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown skipped a meeting at the White House on Monday and hopped a train for New York, where he will meet with a former Treasury secretary and a past chairman of the Federal Reserve. Instead of attending the White House session...
Tags: Politics, Paul Volcker, Regional Authority, Government, White House
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