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...combination of skyrocketing interest rates, mounting bank loans and underperforming crops, Peterson was poised years later to fail a second time as he tried to farm his remaining acreage. But in the early '90s, he found salvation in an unlikely place: a small but passionate group of environmentally minded Chicago shoppers who happened to be on the hunt for a rural farmer rich in organic produce...
...film highlights the success of community-supported agriculture (CSA), the concept those Chicagoans originally brought to Peterson. "My wife and I had just returned from Burlington, Vermont," recalls Bob Scheffler, who helped organize the Chicago CSA group, "and somehow our friends out there had stumbled on a small, three-acre farm just outside of town run by a commuter farmer. He lived in an apartment in town, left his tractor chained to a tree and he would bring food into town. So he was farming this plot for a bunch of people in town. Everyone seemed so happy with...
...There were books about child-and-father relations, like How to Father a Successful Daughter, and then specific texts for part- time fathers, single fathers, stepfathers and homosexual fathers. Bill Cosby's Fatherhood was one of the best-selling books in publishing history, and Good Morning, Merry Sunshine, by Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene, a journal about his first year of fatherhood, was on the New York Times best- seller list for almost a year. Parents can now pick up Parents' Sports, a new magazine dedicated to reaching the dad market with stories on the joys of soccer practice...
...easy to forget that sometimes the most effective defense can be the simplest. Despite all the gadgets that modern medicine has to image, diagnose and track a tumor, there is an easier way to go about things. Researchers at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) conference in Chicago reported earlier this month that the best way to figure out how a cancer is progressing is to draw a little blood...
...have no problem with Gupta's cautioning readers about herbal supplements. The reactionary fear of natural remedies was interesting, though, given that more than 10% of the issue's pages were dedicated to advertising from pharmaceutical companies. Adam J. Hecktman, CHICAGO...