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...turning its back on $46 million a year in U.S. federal funding. The charity said selling food to fund its programs is inefficient and often delivers life-sustaining grain not to the hungry but to those who can afford it. It says it made the decision to abandon the controversial source of funding in 2005, but chose to make the decision public in an article in the International Herald Tribute on Wednesday in order to make a stand as Congress debates an overhaul of its food aid program in a new farm bill this summer...
...Christopher Barrett, an economist at Cornell University who has studied food aid programs, said CARE's decision to abandon monetized food aid removes the taboo that has surrounded discussion over whether U.S. grain shipped to hungry mouths could actually be harmful. "The fact that they are willing to forgo significant funding sends a message," he says. "This has political ramifications in the U.S., as CARE has for 50 years been been the leading distributor of U.S. food aid. No one argues that [current food aid arrangements] are not inefficient; the question is whether they are also damaging...
...that was issued following the 2003 loss of Columbia and her crew, whose fates were sealed by a gouge in the more critical leading edge of the shuttle wing. The RTF report anticipated more tile shedding and potentially crippling damage; and as a last resort, the shuttle crew would abandon ship and be given safe haven aboard the international space station to await a rescue vehicle...
Pico Iyer is the author, most recently, of Abandon, a novel, and Sun After Dark, a set of travel essays
...Boston; Santa Cruz, Calif.; and Portland, Ore. In Annapolis, Md., alderman Sam Shropshire is pushing for what would be among the strictest plastic regulations in the world: banishing plastic bags not only from big retailers but from small ones too, forcing mom-and-pop restaurants, for example, to abandon leakproof doggie bags. "With our proximity to the Chesapeake Bay, there's no other option for the protection of our sea life," says Shropshire...