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...Bottom of the Food Chain Of course, higher global prices hurt the poor most, and the impact is particularly heavy in countries such as Bangladesh and the Philippines, which are dependent on imported rice to feed their large populations. A November cyclone in Bangladesh ravaged the fall crop, destroying some 800,000 metric tons of rice and forcing the country to import an extra 2.4 million metric tons from India simply to stave off famine. In Vietnam, bad weather and pest outbreaks hurt harvests. In the Philippines, where some 68 million people live on less than...
...this one against Cornell, the last place team in the Gehrig Division—by digging its season’s grave a few feet deeper, losing, 6-5,in heartbreaking fashion in the first game when Big Red junior Scott Hardinger smashed a walk-off triple in the bottom of the seventh inning. But the nightcap gave the Crimson its first glimmer of hope in a long time...
...more useful.” Confronted with Burgard’s suggestion that more be done to understand the reasons for the decreased consistency in attendance, Smith expressed worry about the Faculty’s efficiency in the interim. “I absolutely want to get to the bottom of whatever it is too,” Smith said. “But I think we have to be very careful to not allow the business of the FAS...to be ground to a halt because of whatever it is that makes people not come.” Because...
...Thinking back to the Government class on “American Public Policy” I took seven semesters ago, I am reminded that social changes seem to happen either from the bottom up, with individuals transmitting their shifting ideals to the politicians who represent them (think of King’s 1963 March on Washington), or from the top down, with politicians or courts making sometimes-progressive policies that individuals gradually accept with realigned opinions...
...After trading leads with the Big Red throughout the game and finding itself tied entering the bottom of the seventh inning, the Crimson saw its production go to waste as Hardinger’s RBI triple delivered a 6-5 walk-off victory for Cornell...