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...even if Asia manages to keep its own rice bowl full, high prices and shortages may still filter down to the world's poorest countries. To put the problem in perspective, the Philippines, which faces the most acute rice shortage in Asia, imports just 15% of its rice; many countries in sub-Saharan Africa import up to 40%. Tight world supplies create a zero-sum calculus: Vietnamese rice going to the Philippines is rice that is unavailable for Africa - or for the NGOs that feed the world's most vulnerable populations. "A lot of people don't realize that Africa...
...same ones that Muslims, American or not, are taught to uphold in their daily lives. As an American-born Muslim, it's easy for me to follow these values - just as easy as it is for my husband and his friends to gather together to watch the Super Bowl: just sketch in some beards, insert a prayer break and delete the alcohol. (The legal drinking age is one American law that Muslims disregard completely - Islam prohibits alcohol consumption, at any age.) Such strict rules, to some, are a sign of extremism, and so are the beards - to some, our five...
...hero, a snake-hipped runner and cute as all get out. He is a version of Red Grange, who came out of Illinois, signed a huge contract with the Chicago Bears and began the economic and social transformation of the game; the road to the Super Bowl started, however primitively, with Grange...
...exalt individual freedom (the authors use their system to explain how one might structure school vouchers or privatize Social Security) while protecting people from cognitive and social forces that lead them to decisions that even they would describe as poor. We are all like houseguests who eat from a bowl of cashews, then thank our host for removing the nuts so that we don't spoil our dinner...
...giddy. Tsukiji is a foodie’s Disneyland and it made the late Fulton Fish Market in New York seem like a county fair in comparison. After perusing the breathtaking seafood selection, we lined up for breakfast in the outer market. The salmon, tuna, and sea urchin rice bowl I had for breakfast was unbelievable; it was unlike anything I’d ever tasted before. The tuna for once wasn’t mealy, the sea urchin was creamy and the salmon practically melted the second it hit my mouth. Yet it tasted instantly familiar, even faintly reminiscent...