The canned broad beans which Mr Khader's wife heats on a kerosene stove come from Egypt too.

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Fears that Mr Speight might spill the beans about other backers of the coup may also have played a role.

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The worst moment for him came when he had to comment on an internal NoW email in which a news desk editor asks a star reporter to "call in those bottles of champagne" by getting Mr Yates to spill the beans about a terrorism plot.

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Mr. Herrera grows washed arabica beans on about 45 acres.

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When Mr. Kasich is done counting his magic beans, he might look north to Wisconsin for a better Medicaid role model.

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In another experiment, this time on his undergraduates, Mr Rao offered two deals on loose coffee beans: 33% extra free or 33% off the price.

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Eventually Mr. Freeman began hauling small batches of his roasted beans to a local farmer's market.

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But over the last decade or so, that's changed, thanks to the efforts of people like Mr. Roberts and Steve Sando, whose company, Rancho Gordo, specializes in New World beans and grains.

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