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42. Review: You, too, can enjoy 4-hour workweek, author says How? He writes it takes roughly three ingredients, which he fleshes out with tips ranging from test-driving a business idea to renting luxury apartments abroad: It wasn't always this way for the entrepreneur and author of The 4-Hour Workweek, a seductively titled book that promises a luxury lifestyle free of 9-to-5 rigmarole. Not only does he march to a different drummer, he's likely hired someone to do the marching for him while he's off learning a seventh language or mastering a rare...
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43. Amid perceived decline in Internet age, newspaper starts in Holly It grew with the opening of a sugar beet factory in 1905 that has long since closed. A lot of people's lives have been torn apart and I think a newspaper will serve the community in a good way by keeping everyone informed about what is happening," Smith told the Chieftain. The newspaper has hired a few part-time writers from across the valley and a graphic designer in nearby Swink who will help produce the paper. There will be a lot of stuff going on here for a long time," he said in a...
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44. Waitrose Commits to LEAF Assurance Waitrose head of fruit and vegetable buying Mary Vizoso said: "We don't only care about the quality of the produce, but also about the environment where it is grown. In order to achieve LEAF Marque status, all farms supplying Waitrose will have to demonstrate high standards of environmental stewardship including minimal pesticide use. In Britain many of these methods are becoming more widespread but for farmers in developing countries, they are often groundbreaking. That is why we are...
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45. Eat Your Veggies ... for Dessert?! Only the finest ingredients are used to produce Paciugo, including fresh fruit, pasteurized homogenized milk and the highest quality imported chocolate and nuts. Beat the heat and eat healthy at the same time at Paciugo, a national chain renowned for its authentic Italian ice cream, where these and other nutritionally rich fruit & veggie and fruit & herb summer flavors will be available through September. Paciugo gelato, which is typically 70% lower in fat than American ice cream, is...
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46. Planting seeds for change Pictured here Gabriel displays their first beet grown in the yard. It sits between two similar cabins -- the threesome are thought to be circa-1900s hunting lodges -- on a narrow, twisting road in the heavily wooded hills off Cherokee Road near the James River. Rather than planting in neat rows and hills, Fisher-Duke took a more avant-garde approach -- "crazy circular beds and incorporation of vegetables and traditional annuals and perennials," Vassar said. Peppers and tomatoes, planted in...
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