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...plant varieties, as well as fertilizers and pesticides. In the 25 years prior to 2001, the total worldwide investment in agriculture?including machinery, land improvements and livestock?increased from $1.5 trillion to more than $2.1 trillion, according to the United Nations. Different types of foods are being grown, as basic crops have given way to speciality produce. Instead of growing sweet corn for sale by the ear in the marketplace, for example, farmers are harvesting and selling white corn for the production of tortilla chips...
...basic plotline of most of these films is that people are stuck somewhere and have to endure horrible things--or indeed, do horrible things to each other--to escape. The more deviant and repulsive the treatment, the better. Bousman, who directed the later Saw films, says he got inspiration for that meat-locker scene from shoveling the driveway during endless Kansas winters. "I always thought I was gonna die 'cause it was so cold outside," says Bousman. "What happened if you were stuck outside with no clothes on? The ideas start off in the real world, and then we take...
Farmer, the founder of Partners in Health, a Boston-based nonprofit organization with projects in the U.S., Latin America, and Russia, said that although the success of projects like those he runs are dependent on the commitment of governments to providing basic health rights, Partners in Health would not necessarily avoid getting involved in countries where the regime is unwelcoming...
...reason for its omission, the influence of markets is of such singular importance in the modern world that economic understanding deserves its own category. For starters, more ink is spilled about markets than almost any other topic. If one wants to understand current events, one must have a basic understanding of the economy. Markets also underlie almost every political decision we make as citizens, as government and the market have become intertwined on issues ranging from communications regulation to social programs to monetary and fiscal policy...
...Beyond basic comprehension and citizenship, markets profoundly affect our daily lives. Whether we are shocked to find no tomatoes in our dining halls or are writing a paper on a computer made in China, it has become impossible to escape market forces. Economic factors also affect our major life decisions, including deciding where we live, what we do, how much education we get, and what our standard of living is. Given the importance of markets, we think it is critical that a Harvard graduate have both an understanding of how they work and an understanding of their failures and shortcomings...