• Stewart Brand, one of the founders of the back-to-the-land movement, has been arguing fiercely that environmentalists need to drop their anti-GM stance.

    FORBES: Green Genes

  • But salt harvesting was rescued by an unlikely savior--a back-to-the-land movement in the late 1980s that swept the French intelligentsia, who found it fashionable to spend their weekends raking and skimming.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • "I made a promise to my dad on his deathbed - to get the land back - and I don't break my promises, " he says.

    BBC: India's booming land values spark family feuds

  • Behind the wheel of the Mini Countryman is Guerlain Chicherit, famed world champion of the FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup, who managed to launch a modified version of the vehicle off an 8-meter high ramp, do a full 360 degree back-flip, and land it back on all four tires.

    FORBES: MINI Partners With Monster Energy For First Ever Car Back-flip

  • Behind the wheel of the Mini Countryman is Guerlain Chicherit, famed world champion of the FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup, who managed to launch the the modified version of the vehicle off an 8-meter high ramp, do a full 360 degree back-flip, and land it back on all four tires.

    FORBES: MINI Partners With Monster Energy For First Ever Car Back-flip

  • If they are based on whatever the product owner happens to think, based on his gut feel, without testing, we have moved out of the land of Agile and we are back in the land of arbitrary command-and-control.

    FORBES: Agile Part 3: The Conversation Continues

  • We no longer had to cross no-mans-land from back roads into the underground garage to avoid snipers.

    CNN: 'Sniper Alley' McDonald's shows change in Bosnia

  • Back on land, mining-company engineers say new techniques, such as dissolving minerals and sucking them up through a pipe or extracting ore with high-powered water jets, could increase recoverable reserves.

    WSJ: Exhausting the Earth's Resources? Not So Fast

  • Well, back in the 1920-1935 time span land started to become vastly more productive.

    FORBES: Robots And Jobs: Is Paul Krugman Really Saying This?

  • Kaufman's book is a marvel of concision, with a handy color-coding system (red for "medium-size land birds") and a one-page index on the back page.

    FORBES: Peterson's Progeny

  • Clayton reservoir, which was built in 1884 under land in Back Lane, Clayton-le-Woods, Lancashire, was sold at auction by owner United Utilities.

    BBC: Clayton-le-Moors reservoir

  • Back in the day the plain-old-copper land networks were self powered and seldom failed.

    FORBES: New York, Black Swans, Blackouts and Anti-Fragile Grids

  • But then after the well is dug - which takes about three weeks - then they go back and reclaim all the land.

    NPR: Drilling for Gas in Dallas-Fort Worth

  • Excerpt (White): The Turner thesis is very simple: What made Americans was the existence of free land in the West, and it was the constant settlement of that free land, the retreat back to nature--back to barbarism almost--and then the recapitulation of progress out of this initial retreat that made Americans who they are.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • "It took about two-and-a-half hours to escort the horse back to dry land and into the hands of a vet, " Kelly said.

    CNN: Horse rescued after swimming 2 miles into ocean

  • The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is set to sell land for both projects when environmental impact studies come back--probably in April.

    FORBES: Lighting Las Vegas

  • Utilising straw for biomass represents one of the most efficient methods for its disposal and pre-empts the need for it to be ploughed back into the land.

    BBC: Time to encourage biomass growth

  • That means the recovery in both home construction and new-home sales could be held back until developers replenish their supply of land, especially in areas where buyers want to live.

    WSJ: Home Builders Need More Land | The Outlook

  • The community dates back about a century, a response to land shortages in El Salvador - a country about a fifth the size of Honduras, but with a much larger population at that time.

    BBC: La Nahuaterique: A village in limbo

  • The report also lauds the land-based eLoran radio navigation system as a very worthy back-up technology.

    BBC: UK 'over-reliant' on GPS signals, engineers warn

  • No word yet on where the phone is expected to land, nor how much the jungle-ready slab might set you back, but we'll be sure to drop it on the ground in Barcelona in a few weeks time.

    ENGADGET

  • Another appealing aspect of biodynamics is the notion of healing the land, of bringing soils and their environment--and the cosmos--back into a lively equilibrium.

    FORBES: Witchy Wines

  • Commercial products which are apparently only about a year to 18 months away and as de Smet details in the video, could land on store shelves in a compacted rolled-up form for "unpacking" back home.

    ENGADGET

  • Castleford marksman Orr could only land two of his three first-half shots at goal and gritty Wakefield hit back to draw level just before the break with a third successful kick at goal from McNamara.

    BBC: Tigers tame Wildcats

  • Last year's digital edition of TS Eliot's The Waste Land for the iPad proved that literature-related apps could be profitable when it earned back its costs in six weeks.

    BBC: Ebooks: Is digital opening up a new chapter for publishing?

  • The most striking additions are of course the caterpillar tread on the back and ski on the front, in theory enabling this thing to manage a man-powered escape across land or snow.

    ENGADGET: Ejector seat-equipped B.O.N.D. bicycle doesn't expect thieves to talk, it expects them to fly (video)

  • Turning back to China, Liberation Army Daily and the Beijing News report that China successfully carried out a land-based, mid-course missile interception test at an undisclosed location within its borders, but says the test did not target any country.

    BBC: China round-up: Anti-corruption drive

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