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...pain. "It's very hard to feed my family already, and now we're worried that the rice will run out. I've started cooking rice porridge to try and use less. Rice is very important to us: it is what we eat. Without [it] people will die." Food aid programs are suffering, too. Valerie Guarnieri, Philippines director for the U.N. World Food Program, which feeds about 1.1 million Filipinos, says rising prices mean her organization will have to spend about 60% of its $19 million budget on food, up from 45% last year. "It's going to have...
...Washington, has vowed to take a tougher line toward his uncooperative Northern neighbor, in stark contrast to the "Sunshine Policy" Seoul has pursued for the past 10 years. This program of engagement allowed North Korea, without giving up much of anything, to gorge on a smorgasbord of South Korean aid amounting to more than $800 million in the past five years alone. The gravy train reached full throttle in October when Lee's predecessor, Roh Moo Hyun, held a summit with Kim in Pyongyang and agreed to provide a laundry list of goodies to the impoverished North, including the construction...
...Seoul, such as holding reunions of families that have been separated since the end of the Korean War. Perhaps more importantly, Lee is making greater economic ties contingent on progress in denuclearization. If Kim completely abandons all of his nuclear programs, Lee says he'll institute a vast aid package aimed at tripling North Korea's annual per capita gross national income to $3,000. (South Korea's is more than $20,000.) Says Kim Tae Hyo, Lee's secretary for national strategy: "Big-scale inter-Korean projects will be linked to the progress of the six-party talks...
...tide may turn in favor of the allies: after growing slightly for seven years, the North Korean economy contracted by 1.1% in 2006, according to South Korea's central bank, and a bad harvest has worsened chronic food shortages, say North Korea watchers. Lee has pledged to maintain humanitarian aid to the North. But if Pyongyang's plight continues to worsen, Lee's tourniquet on other potentially vital economic arteries could force the Kim regime to heel...
...enormous impact it can have on one's life?whether it's the grand gesture of an architectural masterpiece in an urban landscape, like Herzog & de Meuron's new National Stadium in Beijing, or the daily pleasure rendered by a more pedestrian product, like Harry Allen's new first-aid kit for Johnson & Johnson. My first experience with great design dates back to the early 1970s when my parents would buy stuff at a store called Design Research on Manhattan's 57th Street. What I remember most is the Marimekko fabrics, particularly the Unikko poppy print, which graced everything from...