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Seated in his cubicle, flanked by a succulent cactus and a miniature wooden mannequin (today posing as Frankenstein), Pressler says he will stick around for a while, and then perhaps find another hot ticket. "'A while' used to mean 10 years," he says, reflecting on his answer. "It's two to four years in these parts. The pace is accelerated in Silicon Valley...
...preseason - and the reason is simple, money. "Spring training is lucrative for clubs, lucrative for the cities that host them, and will continue to be popular," says Maury Brown, editor of bizofbaseball.com, a site that tracks the economics of the game. According to a recent study commissioned by the Cactus League, which hosts 12 teams in Arizona, spring training will add $200 million to the state's economy...
...sunshine in the midst of this dismal fall and the impending winter. When you buy flowers, it’s like treating yourself,” she said, pointing to the vacant area where the orchids once bloomed. Rachel Singh ’10 said she has a cactus because it’s easy to take care of. “It’s alive, and the fact that we can, away from home, sustain a living thing is quite comforting,” she said of the green cactus with yellow flowers that sits on her windowsill...
...acre farm in middle of South Central Los Angeles - the area south of downtown that rappers mention when they want to sound tough. The seemingly endless gardens are farmed by 350 poor people, each of whom have a plot where they make dinners from the corn, bananas, guava, cactus, mulberries, avocado and sugar cane they grow. It is one of the most surreal things I've ever seen, and I was at Time Warner when AOL bought it. But the gardens are also not the weirdest thing...
...people and my ancestors here in the cactus ... I was moved, and I associated very strongly with the brown-skinned people here...