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...talks with Libby, he had already heard about her CIA role from a "casual" conversation with another government official in the course of interviews for his book Plan of Attack, about the Administration's strategy leading up to the war. His source had called Wilson's wife a WMD "analyst," a designation that would not necessarily indicate her undercover status...
...yanked: earlier this year, the government permitted foreigners to own a majority stake in Indian telecoms. Prashant Singhal, a telecom expert at Ernst & Young India, expects more big deals in the next couple of years. This freer market has its hang-ups, though. Vineet Nigam, an analyst at ICRA, an Indian ratings agency, points out that average revenue per mobile-phone customer is declining as competition increases and as companies expand from cities into small towns. Still, the number of Indians using a mobile phone will probably have grown 50% this year. That kind of opportunity is bound to attract...
...investment in exploration and production will lead to greater supply in coming years. "There's more than enough reserve base," says Craig Pennington, energy analyst at Schroders. By 2010 crude will average $36 per bbl. as new technologies and new fields in formerly unreachable regions of Russia and the Middle East add more than 3 million bbl. a day to global supply, he predicts...
...Canc?n, Mexico, one of Yuk's neighbors, Lee Kyung Hae, died after stabbing himself in the heart to protest the loss of protection for South Korean farmers and the opening of the rice market. That level of passion isn't hard to understand. Chizuru Kamiki, director and food analyst at the Japan Food Culture and Environmental Research Institute in Kobe, says, "Rice defines...
...youngsters eat more Western-style foods. The amount of rice consumed by the average Korean has fallen 24% over the past 10 years alone, according to Korean government figures. "For the younger population, cooking rice is just too much of a hassle," says Kamiki, the Japanese food culture analyst. What's more, rice farmers are literally dying out. In Japan, 80% of them are more than 60 years old, while half of South Korea's rice farmers are past that age. After they stop working, their paddies are rented to other farmers or simply abandoned...