Word: seeding
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...first-year faced no ranked opponents over the weekend, she did defeat challengers who had beaten the No. 73 and No. 107 nationally-ranked collegiate players. On the other side of the draw, Cao opened the fall season with a 6-3, 6-4 win and then squashed third-seeded Yevgeniya Stupak 6-0, 6-1 in the quarterfinals. Stupak, from East Tennessee State University, was ranked No. 98 in the nation. In the semifinals, Cao dueled Michaela Kissel of Marshall, who was seeded first and ranked No. 36 nationally. After a long battle, Cao emerged with...
...Slow Food movement has helped raise consciousness about where food comes from, down to the farmer," says Tasch. "We're doing the same thing with money - where does it come from, and, when you spend or invest, where does it go?" In Tasch's vision that covers everything from seed companies to farms to markets and restaurants...
...Slow Money investment model - with its local, hands-on orientation - gives business owners the means to stay true to their mission during critical growth periods, says Tom Stearns, President of High Mowing Organic Seeds, an organic seed company in Wolcott, Vermont, who participated in Vermont's Slow Money Institute in November, 2008. Traditionally, when a company takes investment money, that means setting itself up to sell, he says. "How else do investors make money? But if you're mission- or place-based, that's the first thing to go out the window," he says. "I think a new generation...
...Agriculture Secretary does concede that the absence of the virus among American hogs so far does not mean that the herds will remain clean. He reported government scientists have thus developed a master seed strain of H1N1 that they are making available to five veterinary-drug makers that can prepare vaccines to be rolled out if and when any herds come down sick. "By making the seed virus, we estimate we've saved two to four months of development time. We hope the manufacturers will now make the vaccine," said Vilsack. The Agriculture Department is also stepping up surveillance efforts...
...food is increasingly bad for us, even dangerous. A series of recalls involving contaminated foods this year - including an outbreak of salmonella from tainted peanuts that killed at least eight people and sickened 600 - has consumers rightly worried about the safety of their meals. A food system - from seed to 7?Eleven - that generates cheap, filling food at the literal expense of healthier produce is also a principal cause of America's obesity epidemic. At a time when the nation is close to a civil war over health-care reform, obesity adds $147 billion a year to our doctor bills...