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Clint Brown began planting vegetables at age 4. His then babysitter, a retired gentlemen with an interest in gardening, got him started. Now 17, Clint has his own gardening business -- a venture that began four years ago with a bumper green bean crop and success at the Le Mars farmer's market. "He sold them so fast,"said Audrey Brown, Clint's mom. "I think that's what got him hooked." Clint's gardens are on his parent's Audrey and Steve Brown's farm west of Merrill. In April 2006 Clint got serious about his gardening business by building his first high tunnel structure, which...

About 40 members of the grassroots space advocacy group ProSpace are descending on Capitol Hill to promote a legislative agenda big on prize competitions and other government-backed efforts intended to foster commercial space transportation services. ProSpace has been lobbying Congress every March for the past decade, pushing initiatives meant in one way or another to open space to the average citizen. Prize competitions were featured prominently in ProSpace’s 2005 "March Storm" agenda with the group urging lawmakers to give NASA authority to put up cash prizes in excess of $250,000 as a way to foster creative solutions to some of...

+++HAARETZ MAGAZINE 29 Sept. '05 :"The Burrowers" By Shlomi Eldar [IMRA Note, By Dr. Joseph Lerner: Shlomi Eldar omits one support of the tunnel builders -- volunteers who oppose bulldozing of dwellings crucial to tunnel excavation and operation. These "morality"- oriented individuals and organizations pointedly denounced the bulldozing of such structures as a high level of evil, but are silent regarding all that goes on in the tunnels and their wealthy entrepeneurs.] QUOTES FROM TEXT: "with the Palestinian Authority in charge of one side of Philadelphia... suspicion will lead at most to a few days' interrogation and detention" "When ......