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Food, Direct Though I do not eat much beef, I love Kate Pickert's article about cow-pooling [June 15]. I grew up on a farm in Arkansas and I think we will treat our environment better when we have a closer connection to where our food comes from. Knowing which meat comes from which part of the cow and how that cow was fattened (by grass or in the factory) will make us more balanced carnivores in the long run. Sara Barton, ROCHESTER HILLS, MICH...
...thing to sell what lies underground to China, but rather another to let Chinese companies own Australian resources themselves. Twice this year, Chinese state-owned enterprises have snapped up major Australian mining stakes. But the biggest deal didn't go through. The state-owned Aluminum Corp. of China, better known as Chinalco, was supposed to take a $19.5 billion stake in Australian-British Rio Tinto, which controls, among other mines, vast iron-ore deposits in Australia. The bid sparked a huge controversy in Australia, with the political opposition running TV ads skewering any proposed deal. In June Rio Tinto...
...child avoiding work in the cowshed, he would retire to the farthest reaches of the farm with a book on Asian archaeology. Rudd majored in Asian studies in college. Diplomatic postings in Sweden and China followed, and his internationalism captured a changing national mood. For the better part of two centuries, Australia's self-perception was that of a chunk of the West that unaccountably found itself floating in the South Pacific. Today, China is Australia's largest trading partner, with Japan second and four other Asian nations rounding...
...ideas, some of which have some prospects." It's not a bad blueprint for any nation navigating a place in this globalized world. Makes you wonder whether Australia couldn't export that having-a-go spirit along with its iron ore, coal and gas. The world might be better...
Turn Off, Tune In, Log Out Being (mercifully) untwittered, I had the attention span to read the Twitter article [June 15] in one go. No surprise of course that the U.S. spawned Twitter, being world leader in social dislocation, self-absorption, celebrity infatuation and ADD. What better way to ignore the person in front of you (wife, child, old friend) than to be Twittering Oprah on how to deal with her dog's ticks? John George Ronaldson McLean, Wellington...