Tex-Mex, Cal-Mex, New Mex, or whose Mex? Notes on the historical geography of Southwestern cuisine.
Residents of the United States often have a peculiar view of Mexican food, drawn more from Mexican American restaurants or from fast food simulations than from actual experience south of the border. While the combination plates at local restaurants offer little of the rich complexity of Mexico's regional cuisines,...

Mapping development in Brazil.
A new map released by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geographia e Estatistica (IBGE)--Brazil's census bureau--displays for the first time the spread of agricultural and other activity into the Amazon rainforest and, according to an IBGE statement, will help to monitor the impact to the area. Using satellite...

Alico, Inc. Announces Management Reorganization.
Company Focuses On Growth Opportunities LABELLE, Fla., Nov. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alico, Inc. , a land management company, announced that its Board of Directors approved a reorganization of the company's senior management team. The reorganization will create a strategically aligned management structure for the agricultural,...

Alico Announces Restructuring of Ginn Contracts.
Previous Land Sale Now Includes Structured Payments with Increased Interest Rates LA BELLE, Fla., Dec. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alico, Inc., a land management company, announced today that its Subsidiary, Alico-Agri, Ltd. has entered into two restructured contracts with The Ginn Development Companies and its associated partner Lubert-Adler...

Alico Announces Additional Stock Repurchase Program.
Board of Directors Authorizes 100,000 Additional Shares to Fund Senior Management Restricted Stock Compensation Plan LA BELLE, Fla., Jan. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alico, Inc. , a land management company, announced that its Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase of up to 100,000 Shares of the Company's...

Alico Announces Regular Quarterly Dividend and Election of Directors.
LA BELLE, Fla., Jan. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alico, Inc. , a land management company, announced at its annual stockholders meeting held on Friday January 19, 2007, the election by stockholders of John R. Alexander, Robert E. Lee Caswell, Evelyn D'An, Phillip S. Dingle, Gregory T. Mutz, Charles Palmer, Baxter...

Amazon on fire: battle heats up over world's largest rain forest.
PARA, Brazil -- The green forest hums with buzz of insects. Colorful birds soar through, the hot and humid air. The roar of a jaguar occasionally pierces the dense growth. To Sister Dorothy Stang, those sights and sounds were home. Stang lived deep ill the heart of...

A watershed for Contra Costa County.
At Los Vaqueros, hike, bike or ride a horse through 18,500 acres of open space Here's the word on Contra Cost a County's newest recreation area: It's big. So big, in fact, that without a map or some trip planning, you could very well hike for hours...

A deeper shade of green.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS have taken an elevated role in virtually every newspaper reader's mind. For years scientists have issued dire warnings over the tremendous consequences of human activity on the environment, and the specter of global warming has become foreboding indeed. Encouragingly, "green" has entered the mainstream lexicon as more...

The Cattle Boom in Southern Arizona: Towards a Critical Political Ecology.
Pioneering across the continent, the livestock industry traveled in easy stages, since Colonial beginnings in the seventeenth century, three thousand miles westward till it reached the Pacific. Always just in advance of the oncoming settlers with their implements of agriculture, it has been the expression of a life of...