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...into action. "There seems to be an awareness that [food security] is one of the fundamental issues in the world that has to be dealt with," says Christopher Delgado, policy adviser on agriculture and rural development at the World Bank in Washington. In a July report, a committee of British parliamentarians called on their government to invest in agricultural research and encourage local farmers to grow more fruit and other produce. The U.S., which traditionally provisioned food aid from American grain surpluses to help needy nations, is moving toward investing in farm sectors around the globe to boost productivity...
Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in 1981 and in 2008 was named the best of all Booker Prize-winning novels in the illustrious British prize's first 40 years. Not content with simply writing, Rushdie, who is a master conversationalist, has also acted in movies, and made a cameo in Bridget Jones's Diary. In 1999, he had an operation on tendons in his face to enable him to better open his eyes, perhaps to the detriment of his ravishing look of manly semi-consciousness. But his sharply angled eyebrows and goatee still create...
Rushdie was famously the subject of a fatwa requiring his execution issued by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Recently, he has argued for greater rights for Islamic women. In 2006, when British Leader of the House of Commons Jack Straw criticized the wearing of the niqab, a veil that covers all of the face except the eyes, Rushdie supported him, saying his three sisters would never wear the veil, and adding: “I think the battle against the veil has been a long and continuing battle against the limitation of women, so in that...
...night weekly politics show, almost three times the program's normal viewership and around half of the total TV audience for the 10:35 p.m. slot. They were drawn like moths by a fiery controversy over the BBC's decision to invite Nick Griffin, the leader of the extremist British National Party, to join the debate. The taxi driver was determined to share his opinions on the matter, no matter that his passenger was dreamily communing with her iPod. "I'm not a BNP supporter," bellowed the cabbie, craning round to make sure he had my full attention...
...Question Time ate itself, turning into a debate about Question Time. The real issue has never been whether Griffin and his ilk should be allowed to join the show's panel. The fundamental problem is how the mainstream parties can reconnect with the electorate and assuage their fury. With British parliamentary elections due by June 2010, party tacticians may be tempted to borrow from the BNP's populist playbook, talking tough on immigration and integration. Such rhetoric often proves a vote winner. But exploiting voters' discontent can simply stoke it. Until mainstream parties figure out how to earn back public...